Carlos Sívori

He was born in Santiago on 6 June 1920, the son of Carlos Sívori Córdova and Berta Alzérreca Cueto. He married Pilar Lorenzo Martínez, with whom he had one daughter.

He studied at the Internado Nacional Barros Arana and the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Santiago.

After finishing his schooling, he engaged in business activities, working at RCA Víctor and Mademsa until 1939. He later became a representative of the company Katz Johnson y Cía. Ltda. in Santiago. In 1941 he founded the firm «Sívori y Cía». He acquired the Lucerna establishment in Santiago and the «La Reserva» estate in Selva Oscura, Victoria.

In 1955 he traveled through Europe as part of a congress on wheat and bread held in Germany.

In the early 1980s, he settled on an estate near Talca, where he dedicated himself to wine production, spending thirty years in that city.

In the 1969 elections he was elected Deputy for the 20th Departmental Group for the period 1969–1973.

He died in Talca on 5 July 2011.

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