Arnaldo Carrasco

Arnaldo Carrasco Carrasco (10 May 1894 – 6 March 1987) was a Chilean military officer. He served as Minister of National Defense during the administrations of Juan Antonio Ríos and Alfredo Duhalde.

Biography

Carrasco was the son of Dolorido Carrasco and Claudina Carrasco. He married María Alicia del Carmen Casanueva del Canto, with whom he had two children.

He graduated from the Military Academy in 1910 and later undertook studies with the United States Air Force. He qualified as a military pilot in 1923 and attained the rank of brigadier general in 1944. He commanded the Military Academy from 1939 to 1944 and served as head of the Confidential Section of the Undersecretariat of War from 1933 to 1934.

He served as acting Undersecretary of War in 1934, Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1946, and acting Minister of Justice in 1946. He retired from the Chilean Army in 1946.

Carrasco served as Chilean ambassador to Canada in 1947 and as ambassador to Brazil from 1953 to 1954. He also represented Chile on the Council of Guarantors in connection with the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute, alongside representatives of Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and Chile.