Jorge Aravena Carrasco

Jorge Aravena Carrasco (10 December 1903 – 27 March 1983) was a Chilean farmer and politician. He served as Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of the Interior during the second presidency of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. He was also a deputy for Talca, Lontué and Curepto between 1961 and 1969.

Biography Family and studies Aravena was born in El Monte on 10 December 1903, the son of Juan Aravena Contreras and Natalia Carrasco Iturrieta. He studied at the Liceo de Talca (now Liceo Abate Molina), the Liceo Valentín Letelier de Santiago, and later at the Instituto Superior de Comercio in Talca.

He married Lidia Alfaro Gutiérrez, with whom he had five daughters.

In the 1961 elections, he was elected deputy for the 12th Departmental Group (Talca, Lontué and Curepto). He was reelected in 1965, serving until 1969. In Congress he sat on the Permanent Commission on Agriculture and Colonization, the Mixed Budget Commission, the Special Commission on the CUT of Arica, the Special Commission on Wine, and investigative commissions on health services, importation of vehicles in Arica, and the 1965 La Ligua earthquake. He also traveled as part of the Chilean delegation to the 21st United Nations General Assembly in New York (1966).

He was a member of the Automóvil Club de Chile and Stade Français.

Aravena died in Santiago on 27 March 1983, aged 79.