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Clodomiro Almeyda
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Clodomiro Almeyda Medina (February 11, 1923 – August 25, 1997) was a Chilean politician. A leading member of the Socialist Party, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 1970 to 1973 during the Presidency of Salvador Allende.
He did his first studies at the German and Application High Schools of Santiago, and then studied at the Faculty of Law, University of Chile. He graduated in 1948 with a thesis entitled "Towards a Marxist theory of the State". He later became a professor of political science in the domain of his studies, especially in the School of Sociology.
He joined the Socialist Party of Chile in 1941, participating in the Popular Socialist Party during the internal bankruptcy in the first part of the 1950s. During the second government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo he was head of the Ministries of Labor and Mining, standing out in his first ministry for being a promoter for the Single Central of Workers (CUT). With the reunification of the party in 1957, he rejoined the organization and was elected for Chamber of deputies for the period of 1961–1965.
With the victory of Salvador Allende in the 1970 Chilean presidential elections, Almeyda was appointed to the post of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the Popular Unity government, he remained in office, except for a brief period in which he served as Minister of National Defense. This was when he made a "castling" with Orlando Letelier (then Minister of the Interior), in order to avoid being the object of censorship by National Congress by means of a motion of no confidence.
After the coup d'état of September 11, 1973, which overthrew the constitutional government, he was arrested and transferred along with 99 other leaders and leaders of the Popular Unity to the Dawson Island Concentration Camp, where he was tortured and he remained under arrest for a long time. He was eventually exiled, living in the German Democratic Republic and Mexico. where he worked as a university teacher and leader of the political opposition in exile.
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