Mario Torres Peralta

Mario Julio Torres Peralta (27 April 1922 – 22 January 2019) was a Chilean business engineer and Christian Democratic Party politician.

He served as Deputy for the 4th Departmental Group from 1965 to 1973, after serving as Councilman of Coquimbo from 1963 to 1965.

Biography Educated at the Liceo de Hombres de La Serena, he studied commercial engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago.

He worked at the Caja de Previsión de Empleados Particulares (1946–1965), and held union positions including president of the Puerto Coquimbo Employees’ Union (1952–1962).

Elected Deputy in 1965, he served on Permanent Committees of Finance, Agriculture and Colonization, Mining, and later Work and Social Security. His term ended with the 1973 coup.