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Date: November 5, 1999
Chilean Ambassador and Activist to Speak on "Democracy, Human Rights, and the Economy in Chile"
Princeton, nj -- Mario Artaza, Chilean ambassador to the United States, and Andrés Allamand, a Chilean activist, will speak on "Democracy, Human Rights, and the Economy in Chile" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, November 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Artaza, who was the ambassador to the United Kingdom at the time former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on charges of torture and terrorism, entered the foreign service is 1958. In the 1960s, his posts included serving as third and second secretary in the Chilean embassy in Washington, D.C., as a member of the Chilean delegation to the UN General Assembly, and as the Chilean representative to international meetings. In 1971 he became counselor of the Embassy of Chile in Peru, and in 1973 was named Chargé d'Affaires in the Embassy of Chile in Washington, D.C.
His diplomatic career was interrupted in 1973, when he became a visiting professor at the University of the Pacific, California. He then joined The World Bank, serving as a country officer for Pakistan, and later for Argentina and Paraguay, and was eventually named senior operations officer for Latin America. In 1990, he returned to the Chilean diplomatic service and was sent to Geneva as ambassador and alternate representative to the international organizations. In 1994 he was named director of policy planning for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also taught a post-graduate course on international organizations at the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile. He is the co-author of two books, Overall Development of Chile and América 70.
Allamand, a researcher at the Inter-American Bank and visiting professor at Georgetown University, was a leader of the student opposition to the Allende government before the 1973 coup that overthrew Chile's Marxist president. Allamand was one of the founders of a new center-right party, National Renovation, which he headed throughout Chile's transition to democracy.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the University's Program in Latin American Studies.