Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue

Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue (Santiago, 15 September 1918 – Santiago, 25 September 1977) was a Chilean engineer and politician. He served as a Minister of State—in the Ministry of Public Works—during the government of President Jorge Alessandri between 1960 and 1964.

Family and education Pinto was the son of lawyer and stockbroker Ernesto Pinto Bolados and Inés Lagarrigue Rengifo. On his paternal side, he descended from an aristocratic family originating in La Serena and the Elqui Valley. He had three siblings: Fernando, Eduardo, and María Inés.

He completed his primary and secondary education at the German School of Santiago and later pursued higher studies at the University of Chile, where he qualified as a civil engineer in 1941.

Public life He worked as an engineer at the firm Echenique y Hurtado, as well as at the state-owned Corporation for the Promotion of Production (Corfo).