Edmundo Salinas

Edmundo Salinas Clavería (1929–1977) was a Chilean physician and politician, member of the Communist Party of Chile.

He served as Deputy for the 21st Departamental Group ―Temuco, Lautaro, Imperial, Pitrufquén and Villarrica― during the XLVI Legislative Period (1969–1973).

Early life He was born in Santiago on 25 January 1929, the son of Edmundo Salinas Bezares and Violeta Clavería Carvajal. He studied medicine at the University of Chile, graduating as a surgeon in 1955.

Career Professionally, Salinas worked as a physician at the Military Hospital of Santiago, the State Railways, the National Health Service, and as a neurosurgeon at the Hospital Regional de Temuco.

He entered politics as a member of the Communist Party of Chile, and was elected Deputy in the 1969 elections. In Congress, he sat on the Permanent Commissions of Public Health and Agriculture and Colonization.

Exile and death Following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Salinas went into exile in the German Democratic Republic, where he died in 1977.