Consolidation in Chile

Issue Date Summer 1991
Volume 2
Issue 3
Page Numbers 57-60
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About the Author

Edgardo Boeninger, after serving as a key advisor to Patricio Aylwin’s successful presidential campaign, was appointed to the cabinet as minister secretary general of the presidency in Chile. One of his country’s leading political thinkers, Dr. Boeninger held the post of national budget director under President Eduardo Frei from 1965 to 1969, and was rector of the University of Chile from 1969 to 1973.

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