Iván Quintana

Iván Eliseo Quintana Miranda (born 3 April 1936) is a Chilean lawyer and politician affiliated with the Communist Party of Chile.

He served as Deputy for the 17th Departmental Group (Concepción, Tomé, Talcahuano, Coronel, and Yumbel) until the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.

Biography He was the son of Florencio Quintana and Etelvina Miranda. On 22 February 1958, he married María Nancy Alarcón Canales in Ránquil, and they had four children.

Quintana completed his primary education at the Escuela N.º1 in Tomé and continued at the Liceo de Hombres de Concepción. He later studied law at the University of Concepción, receiving his law degree and being sworn in as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of Chile in January 1962.

A member of the Communist Party, he served as councilman of Tomé between 1967 and 1973. In the 1973 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for the 17th Departmental Group (Concepción, Tomé, Talcahuano, Coronel, and Yumbel). He joined the Committee on Labor and Social Security. His parliamentary term was cut short by the military coup of 11 September 1973 and the dissolution of Congress.

During the Pinochet regime, he was detained and tortured. He went into exile in Frankfurt, West Germany until 1988, when he returned to Chile.

After the return of democracy in 1990, he ran unsuccessfully for Deputy representing Concepción and Lota. He also participated in the 2013 Regional Councillors election, where he failed to win a seat for Concepción II. In 2014 he was appointed Regional Ministerial Secretary (Seremi) of Labor of the Biobío Region, a position he resigned in 2015 for personal reasons.

As of 2017, he was serving as provincial president of the Communist Party in Concepción.