Orlando Cantuarias

Orlando Cantuarias
Minister of Housing and Urbanism
In office
28 January 1972 – 17 June 1972
PresidentSalvador Allende
Preceded byJulio Benítez Castillo
Succeeded byLuis Matte Valdés
Minister of Mining
In office
3 November 1970 – 28 January 1972
PresidentSalvador Allende
Preceded byAlejandro Hales
Succeeded byMauricio Jungk
Minister of Public Health
In office
24 April 1971 – 18 May 1971
PresidentSalvador Allende
Personal details
Born(1929-12-18)18 December 1929
Died6 November 2014(2014-11-06) (aged 84)
Resting placeParque del Recuerdo
Party
SpouseMaría Costa Rivers (m. 1960)
Children1
Parent(s)Orlando Cantuarias Valdivieso
Cristina Zepeda Olivares
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer

Gustavo Orlando Octaviano Cantuarias Zepeda (18 December 1929 – 6 November 2014) was a Chilean lawyer and politician, member of the Radical Party of Chile (PR) and later of the Social Democrat Radical Party (PRSD). He served as Minister of Mining and later as Minister of Housing and Urbanism under President Salvador Allende.

He also briefly held the portfolio of Public Health as acting minister. He is especially remembered for his role in the nationalization of copper in 1971.