Carlos Altamirano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chilean lawyer
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Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
About Carlos Altamirano
- Carlos Altamirano Orrego (December 18, 1922 – May 19, 2019) was a Chilean lawyer and socialist politician.
- He was the general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party (PS) between 1971 and 1979.
- Before that, he was deputy from 1961 to 1965 and senator from 1965 to 1973.
- He escaped after Pinochet's coup d'Ă©tat on September 11, 1973, and lived as a refugee in Cuba.
- As a young man he won medals in the high jump event at the 1946 and 1947 South American Championships in Athletics.
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