Guillermo Guevara Vargas

Guillermo Guevara Vargas (14 February 1906 – 17 August 1967) was a Chilean shoemaker, trade union leader and politician.

He served as a Senator representing Atacama and Coquimbo between 1941 and 1949.

Early life and family Guevara was born in Pozo Almonte, the son of José María Guevara García and María Vargas.

In 1942, he married Amanda Fuentes Aguirre. The couple had three children.

Political career By trade a shoemaker, Guevara joined the Communist Party of Chile in 1922 and later became a regional party leader in Antofagasta. In 1933, he was appointed member of the party’s Central Committee, and in 1940 joined its Political Bureau.

In the 1941 Chilean parliamentary election, he was elected Senator for the 2nd Provincial Group (Atacama and Coquimbo), running under the label of the National Progressive Party, a denomination used by Communists at the time.

During his senatorial term, he served as substitute member of the Permanent Committees on Constitution, Legislation and Justice, and on Labor and Social Security, and as full member of the Permanent Committee on Mining and Industrial Development. He was also a member of the Joint Budget Committee between 1946 and 1947.

In the 1950s, Guevara left the Communist Party.

In 1963, he supported a constitutional reform proposal aimed at allowing the presidential re-election of Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez.

Death Guillermo Guevara Vargas died in Santiago on 17 August 1967, at the age of 61.