Gustavo Aqueveque

Gustavo Aqueveque Castro (13 September 1917 – 2 July 1988) was a Chilean lawyer, professor and politician of the Popular Socialist Party. He served as Deputy for the 19th Departamental Group (Laja, Nacimiento and Mulchén) for the 1953–1957 legislative term.

Biography Aqueveque was born in Concepción on 13 September 1917, the son of Gustavo Aqueveque Aguilera and Margarita Castro. He married Delia Manón Martínez Stevens on 28 August 1947, with whom he had three daughters.

He studied at the Liceo de Hombres de Concepción and completed his humanities studies in Los Ángeles. He pursued legal studies at the University of Concepción, graduating in 1940. He served as President of the University of Concepción Student Federation.

Between 1939 and 1941 he worked for the newspaper La Patria of Concepción. Later he dedicated himself to agricultural and journalistic activities in Los Ángeles and served as journalist and director of Nuevos Tiempos until 1951. He taught philosophy, History, Foreign Trade, Economics and Law at various educational institutions in Concepción and Los Ángeles.

Beginning in 1971 he became General Manager of Industrias Forestales S.A. (INFORSA), a subsidiary of CORFO, and served as Counselor of the Industrial Credit Institute. He died in Santiago on 2 July 1988.

Political career Aqueveque was a member of the Socialist Party, Bío-Bío Regional branch. In 1954 he was invited to Bolivia to the Third Inter-American Indigenous Congress and to the commemorative events of the Agrarian Reform.

He was elected Deputy for the 19th Departamental Group—Laja, Nacimiento and Mulchén—for the 1953–1957 term, serving on the Permanent Commission on Public Education and the Commission on Labor and Social Legislation.