Juana Dip

Juana Dip Muhana (10 December 1920 – 27 June 2002) was a Chilean teacher, community leader, and politician of the Christian Democratic Party.

She served as Deputy for the Eighth Departamental Group (Melipilla, San Antonio, San Bernardo and Maipo) from 1965 to 1969, and again in 1973.

Biography Juana Dip Muhana was born on 10 December 1920, the daughter of Pedro Dip Mazut and Marta Muhana Llague, immigrants from Lebanon. She married Diego Rodríguez Oyarzún, an officer of the Carabineros, and they had two children.

She completed her studies at Colegio Sagrada Familia in San Antonio and at Liceo No. 3 in Santiago. She began her political involvement by joining the Christian Democratic Party (DC), and served as councilwoman (regidora) in the Municipality of San Antonio from 1963 to 1965. At the same time, she was actively engaged in neighborhood councils, agricultural organizations involved in land reform, children's nurseries, community action, and workers' support efforts.

She was first elected deputy in 1965 and re-elected for the 1973 term. During her first term (1965–1969), she served on the Standing Commissions of National Defense; Foreign Relations; Public Education; Labor and Social Legislation; Finance; the Special Commission on Housing (1965–1966 and 1968); and the Special Investigative Commission on the El Salvador mine (1965–1966). In her 1973 term, she was a member of the Special Investigative Commission on Supply and Price Boards. However, her service was cut short by the 1973 coup d’état that dissolved Congress.

Following the military takeover, her home was raided. In 1984, she fled into exile to Mendoza, Argentina, where she remained until returning to Chile in 1988. She died in Llolleo, San Antonio, on 27 June 2002.