Diego Portales Palazuelo
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Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman, military figure and entrepreneur.
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Early print (1854)
Statue of Minister Diego Portales in Viña del Mar
Statue of Portales at the Plaza de la Constitución in the Chilean presidential palace, Santiago
Posthumous (1854) portrait of the Founding Fathers of the Chilean Republic. From left to right: José Miguel Carrera, Bernardo O'Higgins, José de San Martín, and Diego Portales.
Portales' crypt in the Santiago Cathedral following his reburialIn their orbit 2
Politicians born in the 1790s 6
About this person
Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman, military figure and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto's government, he played a pivotal role in shaping the state and politics in the 19th century, delivering with the Constitution of 1833 the framework of the Chilean state for almost a century. Portales' influential political policies included unitarianism, presidentialism and conservatism which led to the consolidation of Chile as a constitutional, authoritarian and aristocratic republic with the franchise restricted to upper class men from the gentry.
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