Washington Saldías
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Washington Ramón Saldías González (born August 24, 1949) is a Chilean
Chilean people
Chilean people, or simply Chileans, are the native citizens and long-term immigrants of Chile. Chileans are mainly of Spanish and Amerindian descent, with small but significant traces of 19th and 20th century European immigrant origin...

 politician. Saldías is also the executive editor of Pichilemu News
Pichilemu News
Pichilemu News, or PichilemuNews.cl is a Chilean online newspaper based on Pichilemu. It was founded by Washington Saldías, former Councillor of Pichilemu, on January 14, 2000 as a sequel to Periódico Pichilemu .- History :Pichilemu News was founded on January 14, 2000 by Washington Saldías, former...

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Saldías was elected Councillor of Pichilemu with 870 votes (13.70%) from a total of 6,352 votes in Chilean municipal election of 1996.

Biography

Saldías was born in Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

 on August 24, 1949. His family moved to Pichilemu
Pichilemu
Pichilemu , originally known as Pichilemo, is a beach resort city and commune in central Chile, and capital of Cardenal Caro Province. It is located southwest of Santiago, the capital of Chile, and comprises an urban center and twenty-three villages, such as Ciruelos, Cáhuil, and Espinillo...

 in 1950, and he stayed there until 1964. He studied at the University of Chile.

In 1975, Saldías was hired by La Tercera
La Tercera
La Tercera , formerly known as La Tercera de la Hora , is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is El Mercurios closest competitor....

as Correspondent in Pichilemu for the newspaper. In 1979, he became Governor of the recently founded Cardenal Caro Province
Cardenal Caro Province
Cardenal Caro Province is one of the three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins . The capital of Cardenal Caro is Pichilemu....

. Saldías acquired the rights to edit Periódico Pichilemu
Pichilemu (newspaper)
Pichilemu was a Pichileminian newspaper published for the first time in 1944 by Carlos Rojas Pavez, municipal secretary and mayor of Pichilemu from 1967 to 1971.-Background:...

(founded in 1944), from January 31, 1986 until 1990. His project remained dormant until January 2000, when he founded Pichilemu News
Pichilemu News
Pichilemu News, or PichilemuNews.cl is a Chilean online newspaper based on Pichilemu. It was founded by Washington Saldías, former Councillor of Pichilemu, on January 14, 2000 as a sequel to Periódico Pichilemu .- History :Pichilemu News was founded on January 14, 2000 by Washington Saldías, former...

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Saldías has two sons, Christian Andrés and Patricio Eduardo.
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