Sergio Onofre Jarpa | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 10 August 1983 – 12 February 1985 | |
| President | Augusto Pinochet |
| Preceded by | Enrique Montero Marx |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo García Rodríguez |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 15 May 1973 – 21 September 1973 | |
| Constituency | LIII |
| In office 11 March 1990 – 11 March 1994 | |
| Constituency | LV |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1921-03-08)8 March 1921 |
| Died | 19 April 2020(2020-04-19) (aged 99) |
| Party | Popular Freedom Alliance (1938) Popular Socialist Vanguard (1939–1942) Agrarian Labor Party (1950-1958) National Action (1963-1966) National Party (1966-1973) National Labour Front (1985-1987) National Renewal (1987-1997) |
| Spouse | Silvia Moreno Andwandter (1950s-1978; her death) |
| Domestic partner | Mina Huerta Dunsmore (1980s-present) |
| Relations | Onofre Jarpa (ancestor) |
| Children | Sergio Jr., Jorge, Francisco, Isabel |
| Parent(s) | Francisco Javier Jarpa Santa Cruz (father) Raquel Reyes Corona (mother) |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Occupation | Diplomat, farmer |
| Awards | Premio al Mérito Geopolítico (1991) |
Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was aChilean right-wing politician who served as one of the founders of theNational Renewal party.
Coming from a rural background, he studied agriculture at theUniversity of Chile.[1] He first became involved in politics in the 1950s, initially with the youth movement of theAgrarian Labor Party before becoming involved in theNational Action withJorge Prat.[1] He was instrumental in the formation of theNational Party in 1966 and served as leader of the opposition to theleft-wing government and, from 1971, editor of the anti-socialist journalTribuna.[1]
Elected to theSenate of Chile in the1973 election, Jarpa became a diplomat following the1973 Chilean coup d'état, serving as a delegate to theUnited Nations and before becoming ambassador toColombia (1976-1978) and thenArgentina (1978-1983).[1] Jarpa was appointedMinister of the Interior in 1983 with special orders to open dialogue with the opposition, which had organised under the name Democratic Alliance. This policy of appeasement was quickly abandoned by Pinochet however.[2] He held the post until 1985.[1] He formed his own political movement, theNational Labour Front (Frente Nacional del Trabajo), in 1985 and this group was one of the three that formedNational Renewal two years later.[1] He returned to the Senate as a representative of this new party in 1990.[1]
Alongside his political career Jarpa was a noted author on socio-political topics and he was awarded thePremio al Mérito Geopolítico by the Chilean Institute ofGeopolitics in 1991.[1]
He died fromCOVID-19 on 19 April 2020, during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Chile.[3]
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