Carlos Cuadrado Prats
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Carlos Cuadrado Prats | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2026 | |
| Constituency | 9th District |
| Mayor of Huechuraba | |
| In office 6 December 2012 – 6 December 2024 | |
| Councilman of Huechuraba | |
| In office 6 December 2008 – 6 December 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 January 1965 Talca, Chile |
| Party | Party for Democracy |
| Occupation | Politician |
Carlos César Luis Cuadrado Prats[1] (born 24 January 1965) is a Chilean journalist and politician. Between 2012 and 2024 he served as mayor of Huechuraba.
Between 2008 and 2012 he served as a municipal councillor of the same commune. A member of the Party for Democracy (PPD), he is the son of the first mayor of Huechuraba, Sofía Prats Cuthbert (1991–2000), and grandson of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, Carlos Prats (1970–1973).[2]
Professional career
He was born at the Hospital Regional de Talca (HRT), the son of Sofía Ester Prats Cuthbert (the first mayor of Huechuraba) and Isidoro Cuadrado. He is the grandson of General Carlos Prats, former Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, who was assassinated together with his wife by the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), reportedly in the context of Operation Condor.[2]
He is married to Natalia Pérez Vega, with whom he has two children.
He completed his primary education in Molina until the second grade. He finished his primary and secondary education at the Alliance Française schools in Curicó, Santiago, and Concepción. He began his university studies with three years at the Faculty of Law of the University of Concepción. During that period he was a leader and member of the Sebastián Acevedo Movement Against Torture.[2]
In the late 1980s he moved to Santiago, where he studied the bachelor's programme in social sciences with a specialization in history, and later journalism and a degree in communication studies. Politically, during those years he joined the recently founded Party for Democracy (PPD).[2]
After qualifying as a journalist, he obtained a master's degree in Social Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain.[2]
In the early 2000s he focused his professional career on academia, teaching courses such as Propaganda and Political Communication, Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns, Political Propaganda, and Introduction to Communication at the Diego Portales University, University of La República, and UNIACC.[2]