Carlos Morales Abarzúa (2 September 1915 – 2 October 1988) was a Chilean lawyer and politician, leader of the Radical Party of Chile and Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
He was born in Parral in 1915, the son of Joaquín Morales and Juana Abarzúa. He studied at the Liceo de Parral, the Internado Nacional Barros Arana, and the University of Chile, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1943 with a thesis entitled La caja de previsión de la Marina Mercante Nacional.
Carlos Morales with Raúl Fernández Longe and Hugo Miranda (his wife, Cecilia Bachelet, appears third from left)
He married three times: first with Aída Rosa Sanhueza Sagardía (one daughter), then with Elda del Carmen Dell'Omodarme Bonomi (one son), and finally in Mexico with Marta Ruth Iglesias Soto (married on 19 August 1988).[1]
From 1944 he worked as a brand conservator lawyer at the Ministry of Economy and served as vice president of the National Association of Fiscal Employees (ANEF).
He began his political activities in the Radical Youth (JR) and eventually became president of the Radical Party of Chile, elected on 29 June 1969 and re-elected in 1971, resigning in February 1972.[1]
In the 1957 elections he was elected Deputy for the 7th Departamental Group (Santiago), and was re-elected three times. In the Chamber, he chaired the Radical Party’s parliamentary committee and worked on various commissions.[1]
Two years later, he went into exile in Mexico, where he became a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM.[2] In 1981 he published La Internacional Socialista (Editorial Patria Grande, ISBN 968-474-003-4).
He died in Mexico City on 2 October 1988, married in third nuptials to Marta Ruth Iglesias Soto.
