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Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet

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Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet
President of Club Deportivo Magallanes
In office
1993–1993
Personal details
Born
Gonzalo Eduardo Townsend Pinochet

(1951-09-23)23 September 1951
Valparaíso, Chile
Political party Party of the South (1992-1993)
Liberal Party (1993-1994)
National Liberation Party (2007)
Other political
affiliations		Acción Pinochetista Unitaria
RelativesAugusto Pinochet (uncle)
Mónica Madariaga (aunt)

Gonzalo Eduardo Townsend Pinochet[1][2][3] (Valparaíso, September 23, 1951) is a political scientist and public relations chileno who led Club Deportivo Magallanes in 1993 for 6 months.[4]

Since 2007 he has had a YouTube channel called Verdad Histórica where he has been one of the biggest disseminators of Pinochetism on social media[5] and on physical media since the 1990s. In 2007 he founded the party Liberación Nacional, which was part of the political movement Acción Pinochetista Unitaria (APU) which he founded in 1992.[6][7][8][9]

Previously he ran as independent for the Union of the Centrist Center party's quota for councilman for the commune of San Joaquín in 1992[10] and in 1993 he tries unsuccessfully to run for President of the Republic as an independent when he is rejected by the SERVEL.[11] He is the nephew of Augusto Pinochet[12][13][14][15] and Mónica Madariaga.[16]

Biography[edit]

Son of Gonzalo Townsend Madariaga[17][18][19][20] and María Inés Pinochet,[21] father of an adopted son, he studied journalism in 1973 at the Universidad de Chile without completing his degree, he is also a publicist and holds a diploma in Public Relations, he also studied political science at the Universidad de Chile and is a member of the Colegio de Relaciones Públicas y Publicidad. He studied at The Mackay School in Viña del Mar (where he lived his childhood), and at the Liceo José Victorino Lastarria in Santiago.[22]

Political career[edit]

Direct advisor to Pinochet on the above matters for more than 25 years, from early 1972 until 1994.[22]

He was vice-president of the Party of the South (serving as interim president) in 1992 and 1993 and of the Liberal Party which merged with the former.[22]

In 1992 he founded the political movement Acción Pinochetista Unitaria (APU) and ran as an independent for the Union of the Centrist Center party for councilman for the commune of San Joaquín, obtaining 721 votes corresponding to 2.65%.[22]

In 1993 he tries to run for President of the Republic as an independent, however he was challenged by the SERVEL after two weeks, the same year he tried to constitutionally accuse Minister Enrique Krauss for dereliction of duties.[23]

In 2006 he was invited to the Televisión Nacional de Chile program La tele o Yo where he was interviewed.[24]

In July 2007 Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet announced through his social networks the creation of a political party that would be born from the movement, which gathered Pinochet's followers and which Townsend led. This party would have been called National Liberation Party, because the law did not allow Townsend to use his uncle's surname. Finally, the political collectivity failed to register in the electoral records.[25]

Postures[edit]

He recognized himself as a friend of Humberto Gordon.[3][26] He also alleges that his uncle is innocent in the Riggs Case.[27]

As for the money, my uncle was a man of integrity. In this is more involved Mrs. Lucia[28]

— October 5, 2007 - Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet

Gonzalo responded to Jaime Guzmán's sister by saying:

She points out, among other inaccurate and false things, that General Pinochet had a happy face for his (Jaime Guzmán's) death. I was in the Military Hospital the day he was taken there and I saw the suffering caused by such a cruel murder[29][30][31][32]

— March 30, 2016 - Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet

Gonzalo Townsend accuses Chilean right wing of "abandoning" military[33][34][35] and the Pinochet family of abandoning the defense of his uncle.[36]

In addition, Gonzalo claims that his aunt Mónica Madariaga saved Sebastián Piñera judicially by interceding on his behalf before Supreme Court Minister Luis Correa Bulo. This was due to a request from José Piñera.[37][16]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Townsend Pinochet, Gonzalo (2007, 2009 y 2023). PRESIDENTE PINOCHET, LIBERTADOR DE CHILE Por la verdad histórica del 11 de Septiembre de 1973 (Third Edition). ISBN 9798398232301.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Townsend Pinochet: "I was 15 years dead in life"". La Cuarta. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Augusto Pinochet's nephew denounces alleged death threat from the municipality of Puerto Montt". Biobío. March 22, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Conmoción en Chile por la muerte de ex represor". Río Negro. June 17, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  4. ↑ "DESIGN OF A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR CLUB DEPORTIVO MAGALLANES" (PDF). Universidad de Chile. 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  5. ↑ ""Salvar Chile": La operación de la extrema derecha contra el proceso democrático constituyente". El Ciudadano. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  6. ↑ "Chile: Pinochet Proposed As Presidential Candidate". Latin America Data Base. June 30, 1992. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Augusto Pinochet's nephew announced creation of political party". Emol. July 12, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  8. ↑ "One of Pinochet's daughters aspires to congress so she can clean up family image". ABC. 8 October 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2023. A nephew of the former dictator, Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet, recently created the so-called Pinochetista Party, through which he also intends to enter Congress.
  9. ↑ "Townsend's "Day of Rage"" (PDF). Revista El Siglo. March 4, 1999.
  10. ↑ "Candidate Ballot by Commune San Joaquín Municipality 1992". Histórico Servel. 1992. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  11. ↑ "ACCEPTS AND REJECTS CANDIDATE DECLARATIONS FOR PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC THAT HE STATES". BCN. 1993. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  12. ↑ "Pinochet will never beg for clemency". Panamá América. 2 October 1999. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  13. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew criticizes "disloyalty" of government authorities to those who helped them in dictatorship". Biobío. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  14. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew sells kidney to alleviate economic crisis". LMT Online. 13 March 2005. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  15. ↑ "FIRST BREAKING OF THE SILENCE PACT DINA tells all". Page12. 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2023. Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet, a nephew of the former dictator, warned of the risk of civil war if his uncle was tried. "We are going to come to a confrontation among Chileans. We are sitting on a powder keg. There is a risk of civil war: the armed forces are not going to accept the trial, because what happened in 1973-1990 was not the government of one person, the government of Augusto Pinochet, but of all the armed forces, it was a military government," he argued. He cited as evidence of the risk of civil war a Monday statement by army commander Ricardo Izurieta, in which he claimed that "I see a lot of aggressiveness in some people" toward the armed forces.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Pinochet's nephew assures that Madariaga is telling the truth". La Nación. July 28, 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  17. ↑ "Day of the Young Combatant Dialogue for Peace Letter to Jaime Guzmán". La Tercera. March 30, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  18. ↑ "After long illness Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet's father passed away". Centros Chilenos en el Exterior. April 7, 2006. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  19. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew's long battle for his father". La Tercera. April 3, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  20. ↑ "The long battle of Pinochet's nephew for his father". La Tercera. April 3, 2016.
  21. ↑ "Chilean media recall link between Bolocco's friend and Pinochet". El Comercio. 28 May 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet (2023). PRESIDENTE PINOCHET, LIBERTADOR DE CHILE Por la verdad histórica del 11 de Septiembre de 1973. ISBN 9798398232301. Search this book on
  23. ↑ "LEGISLATURA 326ª, ORDINARIA Sesión 9ª, en martes 22 de junio de 1993". BCN. June 22, 1993. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Gonzalo Townsend". IMDb. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew and his political party: "I don't need the support of the family"". Archived from the original on 26 July 2010.
  26. ↑ "Deceased of a heart attack former CNI chief on trial". Emol. June 15, 2000. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Augusto Pinochet's nephew claims to feel abandoned by the former military officer". El Mostrador. 26 March 2006. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  28. ↑ "The Pinochets with order of freedom". El Universo. October 6, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2023.}
  29. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew responds to Jaime Guzman's sister". Nuevo Poder. March 30, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2023.}
  30. ↑ "The letter that sparked the controversy". Qué Pasa. March 30, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  31. ↑ Carlos Basso Prieto (2017). Chile top Secret: The clandestine underworld of the CIA, the KGB, the DINA and the Nazis. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9789569582554. By the way, PInochet's nephew came out a few days later to respond. In a letter published by the same newspaper, Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet sowed his uncle's "happy face" at the death of Jaime Guzmán, and assured that "I cannot accept that something that is untrue, false and that leads to erroneous conclusions is quoted. When I have said something, I say it up front. I clarify this up front, since I have received numerous calls," he ended his missive, in which, nowhere, however, did he refer to the statements that Guzman was "a danger" for Pinochet. Search this book on
  32. ↑ Maria Olivia Monckeberg (2017). El poder de la UDI. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9789569545672. The journalist's words were harshly replied by Gonzalo Townsend Pinochet, who in a letter to the same newspaper on March 30, 2016 identified himself as the only nephew of Augusto Pinochet living in the south. Search this book on
  33. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew claimed right wing for "abandoning" military". Cooperativa. January 29, 2005. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  34. ↑ "To the forgotten soldiers..." El Amaule. 11 September 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  35. ↑ Leigh Payne (2009). Disturbing Witnesses. Neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence. ISBN 9789586958509. Gonzalo Townsend PInochet, Pinochet's nephew, linked his uncle's arrest in London with that of Contreras in Chile: "Those who yesterday saved the fatherland, today are in prison, and those who wanted to sink it, today are celebrating." Search this book on
  36. ↑ "LUCÍA PINOCHET: SPEAKS 22 MONTHS AFTER ASSUMING AS COUNCILLOR IN VITACURA". La Segunda. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  37. ↑ "Pinochet's nephew claims that those close to Piñera had threatened to kill Mónica Madariaga". Crónica Libre. 8 October 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2023.



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