Fernando Guarello Fitz-Henry

Fernando Guarello Fitz-Henry (Valparaíso, 29 July 1906 – Santiago, 19 June 1971) was a Chilean lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for the 1937–1941 legislative period.

In 2024, his past membership in the National Socialist Movement of Chile (MNSCh) became the subject of public debate following a political decision by his great-granddaughter, Antonia Orellana, to dismiss a government official whose father had served as a physician at the Estadio Nacional detention center in September 1973.

Early life He was the son of lawyer and politician Ángel Guarello Costa and Mary Fitz-Henry MacDonell. He completed his secondary education at the Liceo Eduardo de la Barra in Valparaíso and at the local seminary.

He later enrolled in the Fiscal Law Course of Valparaíso and was admitted to the bar on 27 May 1930. and who was the father of sports journalist Juan Cristóbal Guarello. One of his daughters, Ana María Margarita Guarello, was a teacher and the mother of Chilean minister Antonia Orellana.

Professional career Guarello practiced law in Valparaíso and Santiago. and later of the Democratic Party, of which his father was a founding member. He was elected deputy for the 6th Departmental Grouping of Valparaíso and Quillota for the 1937–1941 term, serving on the Permanent Committee on National Defense.

In 1952, he acted as Secretary General of the First Maritime Conference for the Conservation of the Maritime Wealth of the South Pacific, involving Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. He later participated in the First United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, held in Geneva in 1958.

He was a member of the Club de Viña del Mar, the Automobile Club, the Valparaíso Motorists Association, Santiago Wanderers, the Paperchase Club, and the Granadilla Golf Club.