José Rodríguez Elizondo
José Rodríguez Elizondo | |
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| Ambassador of Chile to Israel | |
| In office 1 January 1997 – 1 January 2000 | |
| President | Eduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle |
| Preceded by | Jorge Tapia Valdés |
| Succeeded by | Sally Bendersky Schachner |
| Vice President of Chile Films Board | |
| In office 1970–1973 | |
| Fiscal of the Corporación de Fomento de la Producción | |
| In office 1970–1973 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 June 1936 |
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| Profession | Lawyer |
José Alejandro Vladimir Rodríguez Elizondo (born 10 June 1936) is a Chilean lawyer and diplomat who was awarded the National Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2021. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in laws in 1960 at the University of Chile, his alma mater.
During the Popular Unity alliance (1970−1973), Rodríguez Elizondo worked in the Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO). Following the 1973 coup d'état, he went into exile to East Germany, where then he escaped to the West Germany in mid 1970s. After that, he was based in Peru from 1977 to 1986, where he worked for Caretas magazine alongside figures like the writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
He has been a columnist in media like El Líbero, liberal e-newspaper. Similarly, he has gained renown through his book «History of the civil-military relationship in Chile», work that has been released in interviews like the developed by Tomás Mosciatti in April 2018.