Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile
What position did Clodomiro Almeyda take from Nov 1970 to Jul 1973?
Clodomiro Almeyda Clodomiro Almeyda Medina ( February 11 , 1923 – August 25 , 1997 ) was a Chilean politician . A leading member of the Socialist Party , served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 1970 to 1973 during the Presidency of Salvador Allende . Biography . He did his first studies at the German and Application High Schools of Santiago , and then studied at the Faculty of Law , University of Chile . He graduated in 1948 with a thesis entitled Towards a Marxist theory of the State . He later became a professor of political science in the domain of his studies , especially in the School of Sociology . He joined the Socialist Party of Chile in 1941 , participating in the Popular Socialist Party during the internal bankruptcy in the first part of the 1950s . During the second government of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo he was head of the Ministries of Labor and Mining , standing out in his first ministry for being a promoter for the Single Central of Workers ( CUT ) . With the reunification of the party in 1957 , he rejoined the organization and was elected for Chamber of deputies for the period of 1961–1965 . With the victory of Salvador Allende in the 1970 Chilean presidential elections , Almeyda was appointed to the post of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . During the Popular Unity government , he remained in office , except for a brief period in which he served as Minister of National Defense . This was when he made a castling with Orlando Letelier ( then Minister of the Interior ) , in order to avoid being the object of censorship by National Congress by means of a motion of no confidence . After the coup détat of September 11 , 1973 , which overthrew the constitutional government , he was arrested and transferred along with 99 other leaders and leaders of the Popular Unity to the Dawson Island Concentration Camp,where he was tortured and he remained under arrest for a long time . He was eventually exiled , living in the German Democratic Republic and Mexico . where he worked as a university teacher and leader of the political opposition in exile . In a daring maneuver , he clandestinely returned to Chile in March 1987 , crossing the Andes on the back of a mule . He later appeared publicly to the surprise of the authorities of the Pinochet government . This led to him being imprisoned and being the only person declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Chile , in use of the missing article 8 of the Constitution of Chile . This article outlawed political parties and individuals that propagated doctrines of the left ( that is , those that promoted a doctrine founded on the class struggle ) . Such conviction mainly meant the loss of the exercise of their citizenship rights and he could only be rehabilitated as a citizen once the country had returned to democratic normality , by the same court that sentenced it . During the aftermath of the Pinochet dictatorship and during the first years of the so-called Chilean transition to democracy Almeyda led the leftist faction of Chilean socialism , with the renewed wing led by the leader Ricardo Núñez . In this role , Don Cloro ( as he was popularly known ) , tried to establish contacts with the communists or even further to the left , through formations such as Izquierda Unida or the short-lived Broad Party of Socialist Left . During the government of Patricio Aylwin he was in charge of reopening the Chilean embassy in the Soviet Union during the last months of the Eastern Bloc . During his stay in Moscow in 1991 , he accepted as guest former East German President Erich Honecker , who was wanted by the German authorities to be tried for crimes during the socialist regime . Despite Chiles objections , President of Russia Boris Yeltsin ordered his deportation to Berlin , in what turned into a serious diplomatic incident . Back in Chile he devoted himself to private life , writing his memories and working as an academic at the University of Chile , School of Sociology until his death on August 25 , 1997 . Tributes . In homage to Almeyda , the Extraordinary Congress of the Socialist Party of Chile in May 1998 as well as its library was named after him .