Jorge Prat Echaurren
| Jorge Prat | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jorge Prat Echaurren April 24, 1918 Santiago, Chile |
| Died | December 20, 1971 (aged 53) Curacaví |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
| Occupation | Banker |
| Employer | Banco de Estada |
| Known for | Politician |
| Title | Minister of Finance |
| Term | 1954-1955 |
| Political party |
National Socialist Movement of Chile Conservative Party National Action |
Jorge Prat Echaurren (24 April 1918 – 20 December 1971) was a Chilean nationalist politician. Prat was a leading figure on the far right of Chilean politics for several decades, although he also served a brief spell as a cabinet minister in the 1950s.
Prat was born in Santiago, Chile. He graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1941 with a law degree and initially practised as a lawyer. He subsequently entered banking and was appointed president of the Caja Nacional de Ahorros in 1952. Under his leadership it changed its name to the Banco del Estado de Chile in 1953.
A veteran of the nationalist political scene, he was first associated with the National Socialist Movement of Chile or Nacistas, albeit as a low level member. In 1941 he also acted as president of the Conservative Youth of Chile although he split from its parent group, the Conservative Party, in 1947.
During the late 1940s he led his own group, the Estanqueros, based around corporatism and strong support for the regimes of Francisco Franco and António de Oliveira Salazar as well as militant anti-communism. It sought the creation of a highly disciplined hierarchy in society and government with a strong charismatic leader and an elite ruling class in an ideology that Prat called current portalismo after Diego Portales.Roman Catholicism and anti-Americanism were also central features of Estanquero thought. His movement published its own weekly newspaper, Estanquero, between 1949 and 1954, from which the group took its name. The group was associated with the far right Agrarian Labor Party, although Prat himself, unlike many others who were part of his group, never formally became a member of this group. Later the Estanqueros would be subsumed into the Chilean Anti-Communist Action a more militant group associated with rightist former President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.
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