Tucapel Jiménez Fuentes

Tucapel Francisco Jiménez Fuentes (born 1 September 1962) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

In 2022 he was appointed by president Gabriel Boric as ambassador at Sweden.

Early life and education Tucapel Francisco Jiménez Fuentes was born on September 1, 1962, in Santiago, Chile. He is the son of Haydeé Fuentes Salinas and Tucapel Jiménez, a trade union leader who served as president of the National Association of Fiscal Employees (ANEF) between 1967 and 1970, founder of the Democratic Union of Workers in 1981, and who was assassinated in 1982 by agents of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE) during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

He is married to Sofía Lagos and is the father of three children: Tucapel, Sebastián, and Susann.

Jiménez completed his primary education at Colegio Juana Atala de Hirmas and his secondary education at Instituto Alonso de Ercilla and Colegio Academia de Humanidades Padres Dominicos in Santiago. Following the assassination of his father, he went into exile with his family in Sweden. There, he pursued higher education at the Stockholm Technical Institute, graduating as an electrical execution engineer.

He later completed diploma programs in Government and Public Management and in Appraisal of Areas Subject to Expropriation at the University of Chile.

Professional career In 1988, Jiménez completed his professional internship at the Swedish company Siemens AG in the quality control department. He later joined the certification company Semko AB.

After living in Sweden for thirteen years, he returned to Chile in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997, he worked at Colbún on the Colbún–Alto Jahuel SICAJ-1 transmission line project.

In honor of his father’s memory, he founded the Fundación Tucapel Jiménez Alfaro, aimed at training and educating trade union leaders.

In 2001, he founded his own company, Asesoría Profesional Ltda.

Political career In 1998, Jiménez joined the Party for Democracy (PPD), although his formal registration as a party member took place in 2009.

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile in the 2005 parliamentary elections and was subsequently re-elected in the 2009, 2013, and 2017 parliamentary elections.

He did not seek re-election in the 2021 parliamentary elections. Law No. 21,238 of 2020 established that deputies may be re-elected consecutively for up to two terms.