Benjamín Teplizky

Benjamín Teplizky Lijavetzky (12 September 1932 − 3 August 1997) was a Chilean politician who served as minister.

Early life He attended the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and the Liceo Valentín Letelier in Santiago before earning a law degree from the University of Chile. He later pursued postgraduate studies in Salamanca and Madrid, Spain.

During the government of Salvador Allende, he served as president of the Federated Party of the Popular Unity, a political party that supported Allende's administration. the Buin Regiment, where he had previously completed his military service, and the detention camps at Ritoque and Tres Álamos.

In January 1975, he was expelled from Chile and spent two years in exile in Israel, followed by eleven years in Italy and Spain. While in Italy, he worked as a consultant for the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) in Rome between March 1977 and August 1978. He returned to Chile in August 1987. By virtue of that office, he also served as chairman of the boards of Codelco, the National Mining Company (ENAMI), the National Petroleum Company (ENAP), and the governing council of Cochilco.

In August 1995, he received the National Mining Award, and in November of the same year, in Caracas, Venezuela, he was elected president of the Summit of Mining Ministers of the Americas.

His last official engagement was at the La Disputada de Las Condes mine, where he had inaugurated Chile's Mining Month celebrations.

A Freemason and member of the Fifth Company of the Ñuñoa Fire Department, "Bomba Israel", Teplizky had been married to Yunia Barahona since 1960 and had three children: Daniel, Roberto, and Cecilia.