Guillermo Rivera Bustos

Guillermo Rivera Bustos (26 January 1920 – 4 May 1992) was a Chilean politician and businessman affiliated with the Liberal Party. He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 6th Departmental Grouping –Valparaíso and Quillota– for four consecutive legislative periods between 1949 and 1965.

Biography Rivera was born in Limache on 26 January 1920, the son of former deputy and senator Gustavo Rivera Baeza and Olga Bustos Muñoz. He married Margarita Brígida Heavey Tormey in Viña del Mar on 19 May 1944; they had three children.

He studied at the San Rafael Seminary in Valparaíso and later at the Arturo Prat Naval Academy –Escuela Naval–. Rivera began his professional career as an employee of the Chilean Nitrate and Iodine Sales Corporation between 1939 and 1943. He then worked for the Chilean–Peruvian Commercial Consortium in Lima and Santiago (1944–1945), where he later served as management secretary from 1946 to 1948. He also held positions in the Mercantile Consortium between 1945 and 1946.

Among other activities, he was an agent for the “La Pedro de Valdivia” Insurance Company, councillor for the Merchant Marine Fund of Chile, and director of the Haverbeck & Skalweit Shipping Company and of the Cerro Alegre Elevator Company in Valparaíso.

Political career A member of the Liberal Party, Rivera served as General Director of the party and as a member of its Liberal Assembly in both Viña del Mar and Santiago.

He was elected Deputy for the 6th Departmental Grouping “Valparaíso and Quillota” for four consecutive terms (1949–1953, 1953–1957, 1957–1961 and 1961–1965). During his parliamentary service, he sat on several standing committees, including Government and Interior, National Defense, Finance, Health and Social Assistance, and Economy and Commerce, presiding over the National Defense Committee on multiple occasions.

Later life Rivera was president of the Valparaíso Peperchase Club and a member of several social and civic organizations, including the Club de La Unión, the Naval Country Club in Salinas, the Caleuche de Valparaíso, and the Viña del Mar Club, where he also served as director. He was director of the Valparaíso Sporting Club and participated in the National Horse Racing Council. Rivera was also a member of the Automobile Club of Chile and was decorated with the Order of Merit of Peru.

He died in Viña del Mar on 4 May 1992.