Ángel Veas Alcayaga

Ángel Veas Alcayaga (11 August 1904 – 22 February 1948) was a Chilean labour leader and parliamentarian who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1941 and 1945.

Biography Veas Alcayaga was born in Huamalata, near Ovalle, Chile, on 11 August 1904. He was the son of working-class parents and entered the mining industry at an early age, eventually becoming a leader of nitrate workers’ unions in northern Chile.

He was affiliated with the Communist Party. During the period in which the party was excluded from the electoral registry, he ran for office under the banner of the National Progressive Party.

Political career Veas Alcayaga was elected Deputy for the Tarapacá Departmental Group for the 1941–1945 legislative term. During his tenure, he served on the Standing Committees on Foreign Relations and on Industries.

In February 1947, he was appointed Intendant of Tarapacá. Later that year, amid the repression of communist leaders, he was detained and confined to Pisagua, where he remained imprisoned with hundreds of other party members.

Veas Alcayaga died in confinement at Pisagua on 22 February 1948. He was later buried in Iquique.