Armando Arancibia

Armando Arancibia Calderón (6 January 1941 – 24 February 2016) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

In 1990, he married Marcela Medina Ricci. He was the father of six children.

He completed his primary education at the Colegio Alemán de Santiago and his secondary education at the Liceo José Victorino Lastarria in Santiago and at the Liceo de Illapel. He later studied Law at the University of Chile, graduating in 1966 and subsequently qualifying as a lawyer. He also completed a Master’s degree in Economics in the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies (ESCOLATINA).

He served as Professor of Economic Theory and Economic Policy at the Schools of Law and Economics of the University of Chile. Between 1980 and 1981, he was a visiting professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium.

Political career After participating in the Radical University Group (GUR), he joined the Socialist Party of Chile in 1962.

Between 1970 and 1971, he was Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the El Teniente Mining Company. In 1972, he was appointed Undersecretary of Economy, a position he held until September 1973, when the military coup took place.

In 1974, he went into exile in Mexico, where he worked as professor and researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and other academic institutions. In 1979, together with other Latin American economists, he founded the journal Economía de América Latina, serving as its editor until 1984.

Between 1982 and 1984, he served as Secretary and member of the Central Committee of the Mexico branch of the Socialist Party of Chile and as Deputy Director and Director of the Institute of Economic Studies of Latin America at CIDE.

Upon returning to Chile, he joined the Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Chile and later served on its Political Commission; he was appointed Secretary of International Relations and head of the party’s Economic Commission. He also participated in the Economic-Social Commission of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia and was member of the central leadership of the Party for Democracy (PPD).

In the 1989 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for District No. 6 of the III Region of Atacama for the 1990–1994 term. In 1993, he was re-elected for the 1994–1998 term. In 1997, he ran for a third term but was not re-elected.

After completing his parliamentary term, he was appointed Director of the Empresa Portuaria Coquimbo on 1 October 1998, serving until 11 March 2000.

On 11 March 2000, he was appointed Intendant of the Atacama Region by President Ricardo Lagos, holding office until 26 December 2001.

He was later appointed Public Notary in San Miguel, with jurisdiction in the commune of La Cisterna.

He died on 24 February 2016 in Santiago, Chile.