Juan Pablo Letelier
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Juan Pablo Letelier | |
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| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 11 March 2006 – 11 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Rafael Moreno Rojas |
| Constituency | 9th Circumscription |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 1990 – 11 March 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Creation of the district |
| Succeeded by | Alejandro Sule |
| Constituency | 33rd District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 January 1961 |
| Citizenship | Chilean |
| Party | Socialist Party |
| Parent(s) | Orlando Letelier Isabel Morel |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University (B.Sc) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Economist |
Juan Pablo Letelier Morel (born 7 January 1961) is a Chilean politician and economist who was a member of the Senate of Chile.[1][2]
He was born in Santiago, Chile, on 7 January 1961. He is the son of Isabel Margarita Morel Gumucio and Orlando Letelier, who under the government of President Salvador Allende served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Chile to the United States (1971), and later as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Interior, and Minister of National Defense, a position he left on 11 September 1973.[citation needed]
Letelier was assassinated by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) on 21 September 1976 in Washington, D.C., United States.[2]
He is married to Marcela Briones and is the father of three children.[2]
Professional career
He completed his primary education at Saint George’s College in Santiago and his secondary education at Nido de Águilas and at Walt Whitman High School in Maryland, United States. After completing secondary school, he entered Georgetown University, where he studied economics.[2]
He later completed a Master’s degree in Economics and International Politics at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico.[2]
In professional terms, from 1976 he worked on the Human Rights Project at the Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.[2]
Between 1983 and 1987, he worked as a researcher at the Latin American Institute for Transnational Studies (ILET), where he carried out a research project on border conflicts, stability, democracy, and regional political cooperation. In 1987, he became Director of Studies of the South American Peace Commission.[2]