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Alberto Baltra (Alberto Baltra Cortés) was born on 6 January, 1912 in Traiguén, Chile, is a Chilean politician and economist. Discover Alberto Baltra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Alberto Baltra Cortés
Occupation Lawyer, economist, professor, politician
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 6 January 1912
Birthday 6 January
Birthplace Traiguén, Chile
Date of death 20 September, 1981
Died Place Providencia, Chile
Nationality Chile

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1912

Alberto Baltra Cortés (6 January 1912 – 20 September 1981) was a Chilean politician and economist, a member of the Radical Party.

The son of Luis Baltra Opazo and Luisa Cortés Monroy, Alberto Baltra studied at the Liceo de Traiguén and the National Institute.

1930

As a student, he worked first in the law school library (1930–1932) and later as secretary of the school's director (1932–1934).

1935

He entered the University of Chile, where he received the institution's award for the best graduate in 1935.

Baltra specialized in economics, and in 1935 he became the founder and first director of his alma mater's School of Commerce and Economics.

He then taught university and wrote several books on economics.

1937

He obtained his law degree in 1937, with a report entitled Ensayo de una teoría general de los actos inoponibles.

In 1937 he joined the Radical Party, and under the government of Juan Antonio Ríos, in 1942, he was appointed general director of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce.

1940

In 1940 he married the lawyer Adriana Olguín, who would be the first female minister in Latin America to occupy the Justice portfolio under González Videla.

The couple had one son, Luis Alberto Baltra Olguín.

1947

During the first year of the presidency of Gabriel González Videla, he was appointed undersecretary of Economy and Commerce, and the following year, in 1947, minister of the sector, a position he held until 1950.

1948

In 1948 he became the first president of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), and led Chile's delegations to the conferences of this organization in Havana (1949), Montevideo (1950), and Mexico (1951).

Later he would be a consultant to CEPAL.

1952

In 1952 he was appointed vice president of the Saltpeter and Iodine Sales Corporation of Chile (COVENSA), and from 1956 to 1958 he was an advisor to the Comptroller General of the Republic.

1957

He also became general director of Madeco in 1957.

1958

He held several leading positions in the Radical Party, becoming national president in 1958.

1968

In the complementary elections of 1968 he was elected senator for the eighth provincial group of Bío Bío, Malleco, and Cautín, replacing the late José García González (PDC).

Baltra narrowly defeated Jorge Lavandero Eyzaguirre (PADENA), 58,050 votes to 57,284.

Miguel Huerta Muñoz (PN) came third with 35,949.

For the election he received the support of the Popular Action Front parties, in what was one of the first rapprochements of radicalism with the rest of the leftist forces.

The following year he was a candidate for the presidency of Chile for the Radical Party, which was part of Popular Unity, and the latter eventually elected the candidate Salvador Allende.

Baltra, who had been on the left wing of the Radical Party and was president of the Chilean-Soviet Culture Institute, resisted the course his political group was taking during the Allende government.

1971

Finally – along with other well-known politicians such as Luis Bossay – he ended up renouncing it on 3 August 1971 and, the same day, forming the Independent Left Radical Movement.

Later that year this became the Radical Left Party (PIR).

The new group was originally part of Popular Unity, but it later abandoned this alliance and was critical of the Allende government.

1973

For the parliamentary elections of March 1973, the PIR joined with other center-right opposition parties in the Confederation of Democracy, formed in July 1972, and Baltra ran for Senator for Santiago, but received only 1.92% of the vote.

Baltra wrote several works on economics, some of which were awarded and used as textbooks at the University of Chile.

He was a professor there, and among his disciples was the future president Ricardo Lagos, who was his assistant.

He was a member of the Chilean Academy of Social, Political, and Moral Sciences.

1981

Alberto Baltra died on 20 September 1981, the victim of a cardiac arrest while walking down Antonio Varas Street near his house in the district of Providencia.