Juan Enrique Taladriz

Juan Enrique Taladriz (1990)

Juan Enrique Taladriz García (3 March 1946 – 26 October 2019) was a Chilean politician who served as a deputy.

He was president of Deportivo Salesiano and founder of Club de Deportes de Valdivia, serving as its vice-president. He also participated in the board of the Rodeo Club and acted as representative of Hispanic institutions in Valdivia, having previously served as Honorary Consul of Spain in the city.

Biography

He was born in Temuco on 3 March 1946, the son of Enrique Taladriz Fernández and Eva García Robin. He married Hilda Celia Eguiluz Figueroa and has three children.

He completed his primary and secondary education at the Instituto Salesiano of Valdivia. He later entered the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile, qualifying as an industrial civil engineer.

He served as director of the Austral University of Chile.

In his professional career, he held multiple executive positions representing farmers and timber producers of his native region. He worked as engineer at Masisa-Laminadora for 16 years and served as leader of the Sociedad Agrícola del Sur.