Baldo Prokurica | |
Birth Date: | 1958 7, df=y |
Birth Place: | Vallenar, Chile |
Office: | Minister of Defense |
President: | Sebastián Pinera |
Term Start: | 18 September 2020 |
Term End: | 11 March 2022 |
Predecessor: | Mario Desbordes |
Successor: | Maya Fernández |
Office1: | Minister of Mining |
President1: | Sebastián Pinera |
Term Start1: | 11 March 2018 |
Term End1: | 18 September 2020 |
Predecessor1: | Aurora Williams |
Successor1: | Juan Carlos Jobet |
Office2: | Member of the Senate of Chile |
Constituency2: | Atacama Region (3rd Circumscription) |
Term Start2: | 11 March 2002 |
Term End2: | 11 March 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Ignacio Pérez Walker |
Successor2: | Dissolution of the Circumscription |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile |
Constituency3: | Huasco Province (3rd Circumscription) |
Term Start3: | 11 March 1990 |
Term End3: | 11 March 2002 |
Predecessor3: | Creation of the Circumscription |
Successor3: | Alberto Robles |
Office4: | Governor of Huasco Province |
Appointer4: | Augusto Pinochet |
Term Start4: | 1988 |
Term End4: | 11 March 1990 |
Successor4: | Carlos López Cortés |
Party: | Renovación Nacional (RN) |
Alma Mater: | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (LL.B) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Spouse: | Ana María de Las Heras |
Children: | Two |
Baldo Petar Prokurica Prokurica (born July 2, 1958, in Vallenar) is a lawyer, academic, and politician of Croatian descent.[1]
He served as the Minister of National Defense of Chile since December 2020 and March 2022. He served as the Minister of Mining of Chile from 2018 to 2020. He is also a former Congressman and Senator of the Republic of Chile on behalf of District No. 3 for the Atacama Region. His family has Croatian origins. His primary studies were conducted at the College San Francisco de Vallenar and Seminary in La Serena. The side made in the Theological Seminary in La Serena and Santiago Scuola Italiana. His studies were conducted at the Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Chile.[2]