Manuel Diez García

Diez García was born in Victoria, Malleco Province, to Juan Diez y Diez and Catalina García Alonso, both Spanish immigrants from León.^[1]

He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Concepción and later at the Seminary of Santiago.^[1]

He pursued higher studies at the University of Chile and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating as a teacher of Spanish and Civic Education in 1921 with a thesis on La Araucana. He later earned his law degree in 1923 with the thesis Algunas consideraciones legales sobre la propiedad austral.^[1]

He married twice: first to Yolanda Urzúa Ravanal (1924–1933), with whom he had five children including Sergio Diez Urzúa, and later to Victoria Silva Grez (1935–1954), with whom he had three children.^[1]

Diez García worked as a teacher in the liceos of Talca and Curicó (1928–1941), and at the Polytechnic Institute of the Catholic University.^[1]

As a lawyer, he practiced in Talca, Curicó and Santiago, serving also as counsel to the Reconstruction Office (1928–1932) and to the Banco Español de Chile (1932–1937).^[1]

He engaged in agriculture, managing the “María Yolanda” estate in Malleco.^[1]

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