Juan Efraín Ojeda Ojeda

Juan Efraín Ojeda Ojeda (5 March 1910 – 1974) was a Chilean industrial worker and socialist politician. He was born in Chiloé to Felipe Ojeda and María de los Ángeles Ojeda Díaz and married Elsa Rita Rodríguez Guzmán in 1943.

He studied at the Municipal School of Puerto Natales and later at the Adult Special School of La Cisterna in Santiago, where he completed elementary education. Between 1922 and 1937 he worked as an industrial livestock worker in Puerto Natales.

He later worked for the Caja Nacional de Ahorros and as a graphic typesetter. He served as director of the newspapers El Socialista and El Esfuerzo of Puerto Natales. Due to his political activism during the government of Arturo Alessandri, he was imprisoned in Puerto Natales, Punta Arenas and the Valdivia prison in 1932.

Political career Ojeda was a militant of the Socialist Party of Chile and a leader of its Youth branch. He also became a trade union leader in the Field and Refrigeration Workers' Union of Puerto Natales, and a representative of the workers of Magallanes to the Chilean Workers' Confederation.

He served as councilman of the Municipality of Última Esperanza from 1935 to 1937. He was elected Deputy for Magallanes, Última Esperanza and Tierra del Fuego for the 1937–1941 and 1941–1945 terms, serving on the Permanent Committee on National Defense and on the Committees on Medical-Social Assistance, Agriculture and Colonization. He was reelected as Deputy for Magallanes for the 1945–1949 and 1949–1953 terms, serving on the Committees on Government and Interior, Regulations, Agriculture, Public Works and Labor and Social Legislation.

He represented Congress before the National Council for Foreign Trade in 1952, was a member of the Red Cross, and served as Chilean chargé d’affaires to Yugoslavia between 1953 and 1956.