Luis Bustamante Cordero

Luis Bustamante Cordero (2 November 1885 ― ?) was a Chilean journalist and politician affiliated with the Radical Socialist Party. He served as senator for the northern provinces of Tarapacá and Antofagasta during the 1933–1937 legislative period, after opting for the Senate over a simultaneous election to the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography Bustamante Cordero was born in Iquique on 2 November 1885. He completed his secondary education at the Liceo de Iquique.

He developed a prominent career in journalism, becoming co-owner, director and editor of the newspaper La Provincia of Iquique. In his writings, he frequently signed under the pseudonym El monje fiel. Through the newspaper, he promoted several socially significant campaigns, including initiatives to secure public loans aimed at fostering local development in northern Chile.

Political career Bustamante Cordero was a member of the Radical Socialist Party. In the 1932 parliamentary elections, he was elected senator for the First Provincial Grouping of Tarapacá and Antofagasta for the 1933–1937 legislative period. In the same election, he was also elected deputy for the First Departmental Grouping of Arica, Pisagua and Iquique, but chose to assume his seat in the Senate.

During his senatorial term, he served on the Standing Committees on Agriculture, Mining, Industrial Development and Colonization, as well as on Labour and Social Welfare. His four-year senatorial mandate formed part of the institutional adjustment implemented following the political crisis of June 1932, which temporarily altered the constitutional duration of senatorial terms.