Diego Portales

Diego Jos Pedro Vctor Portales y Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president Jos Joaqun Prieto Diego Portales played a pivotal role in shaping the state and government politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the Chilean state for almost a century. Portales influential political stance included unitarianism, presidentialism and conservatism which led to consolidate Chile as a constitutional authoritarian republic with democracy restricted to include only upper class men.

Diego Portales was born in Santiago, the son of Mara Encarnacin Fernndez de Palazuelos y Martnez de Aldunate and Jos Santiago Portales y Larran, a superintendent of the royal mint. He did his primary studies at the Colegio de Santiago, and in 1813, attended law classes at the National Institute. As the men of his family had all become successful merchants, Portales also eventually assumed the position of a merchant, taking part in his prosperous and distinguished familys occupation.

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