Orlando Latorre González
Orlando Latorre González (25 January 1916 – 1983) was a Chilean lawyer and politician who served as a minster of state of his country during the second government of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo between 1952 and 1954.
Family and education
He was born in Santiago de Chile on 25 January 1916, the son of Alberto Latorre and Virginia González. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Instituto Nacional. He pursued higher education at the University of Chile, graduating as a lawyer on 4 January 1945 with a thesis entitled National Mining Society.
He married Ana Mercedes Pinochet Bustos, with whom he had two children, Ana María and José Miguel, who respectively became a dentist and a military officer.
Political career
He practiced law in Santiago, working as a solicitor at the law firm of lawyer Jorge González von Marées. He also served as chief counsel of the Social Welfare Department of the Chilean Army. Through von Marées, in 1934 he became a member of the Youth of the National Socialist Movement of Chile (MNSCh). Following the dissolution of that political party in 1939, he joined the Popular Socialist Vanguard (VPS), the successor organization to the former party.
Representing the VPS, in the 1941 parliamentary election, he ran as a candidate for deputy for Colchagua, but was not elected. He later joined the Agrarian Labour Party (PAL).
During the second administration of the president, on 3 November 1952, he was appointed Minister of Justice, serving in that position until 11 March 1953. One day earlier, on 10 March, he was appointed Minister of Public Works and Communications Routes. By virtue of decree with force of law No. 1950 of 4 July, the ministry was renamed and became known simply as the Ministry of Public Works; he served in this capacity until 5 June 1954.
Following the accession to the presidency of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva, in 1965 he was appointed executive vice president of the Municipal Workers' Social Security Fund.
He also served as an assistant lecturer in civil law at the University of Chile. He was a member of the Chilean Bar Association. He died in 1983.