Francisco Javier Cuadra
| Francisco Javier Cuadra | |
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| Minister Secretary General of Government | |
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In office 6 November 1984 – 11 July 1987 |
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| President | Augusto Pinochet |
| Preceded by | Alfonso Márquez de la Plata |
| Succeeded by | Orlando Poblete |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Francisco Javier Cuadra Lizana 23 June 1954 Rancagua, Chile |
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| Spouse(s) | Francisca Montero Matta |
| Residence | Santiago, Chile |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician, academic |
Francisco Javier Cuadra Lizana (born 23 June 1954) is a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician. He was a minister under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, dean of the Faculty of Law, and later rector of Diego Portales University.
The son of Francisco Javier Cuadra Cornejo – lawyer of El Teniente mine – and María Cristina Lizana Alvear, Francisco Javier Cuadra spent his childhood and adolescence in his hometown of Rancagua with his brothers Cristián, Juan Pablo, Gonzalo, and José Miguel. There he studied at the Instituto O'Higgins and then went to university in Santiago: he first entered Adolfo Ibáñez University, where he took five semesters of Commercial Engineering, but after the coup of 1973 he changed to Law at the Pontifical Catholic University, where he received a degree in that discipline.
Recently graduated, he worked at the now-defunct Banco Continental, the only one to be the subject of an intervention by the Superintendency of Banks at the time. One of the delegates of this era was Pablo Piñera, but on 31 January 1983, he was dismissed after a conflict related to the manner in which negotiations with the entity's workers were handled.
That same year Cuadra began to work in the Office of Special Affairs of Government – which was in charge of relations with the Holy See and which provided political analysis to Pinochet – led by Sergio Rillón. To the latter, Pinochet offered the Ministry General Secretariat of Government in November 1984, a post that he refused, but for which he recommended Cuadra, his second-in-command. He thus obtained his first important position in the military dictatorship, which he held from 1984 to 1987. He was then ambassador of Chile to the Holy See until the end of the regime (1987–1990).
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