Camila Vallejo

Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling ( born April 28, 1988 in Santiago ) is a politician of the Communist Party of Chile. She was leader of the student movement in Chile and geography student at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad de Chile ( German: University of Chile ). She is a member of the Central Committee of the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile ( Partido Comunista de Youth Association of Chile). Camila Vallejo was in 2010 and 2011, the President of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (short fech, Student Federation of the University of Chile ). She was also one of the speakers of the Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (short Confech, Association of Students of the traditional universities of Chile ) during the student protests of 2011. Since November 2013, it is a member of the Chilean parliament.

Life

Camila Vallejo is the daughter of Reinaldo Vallejo and Mariela Dowling. Both were in the 1970s, members of the Communist Party of Chile. It is non-denominational.

Camila Vallejo grew up in Macul and La Florida on both parts of the city of Santiago de Chile, and attended the Colegio Raimapu, a private school in La Florida. In 2006, she enrolled at the Universidad de Chile in a study in geography. In 2007, she was a member of the youth organization of the Communist Party of Chile. In 2008 she was a counselor to the Fechner, who presided as President from November 2010 to November 2011. She was thus the second woman to hold this office after Marisol Prado (1997-1998).

In 2011, Vallejo aroused public interest as a spokesperson and leader of the Chilean student protests (along with Giorgio Jackson, the student leader of the Student Federation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Camilo Ballesteros, the student leader of the Student Federation of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile). Some media Vallejo has already been established as the antagonist to Chile's President Sebastian Pinera. The British newspaper The Guardian found that since Subcomandante Marcos not rebel leader Latin America has so enchanted as Vallejo.

In August 2011, presented to the Supreme Court of Chile ( Corte Suprema de Justicia ) Vallejo because of death threats against her person under police protection.

Since the end of 2011 she is with Julio Cesar Sarmiento Machado ( born January 29, 1983 Santa Clara, Cuba), a senior member of the Communist Youth of Chile and medical students romantically involved. Vallejo ended in July 2013 graduated with honors ( distinción máxima ). On October 6, 2013, it brought their daughter to the world. While Vallejo's campaign for the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress wants to Sarmiento enhanced care of their child.

In November 2013 Vallejo was elected to Parliament as an MEP in the Chilean parliamentary elections.

Student elections 2011

The end of 2011 they defeated in the student elections the radical opposition candidate Gabriel Boric of the scarce difference of 189 votes list. For the fech elections every student can forgive his voice to a candidate ( personal voice ) or a list ( list vote ). Camila Vallejo received 1868 personal votes, 550 more than the 1318 votes for Gabriel Boric. Only the list votes are decisive for the office of President. Camila Vallejo was elected for a period from December 2011 to November 2012 as Vice President.

Spokeswoman for the Confech

In addition to her position as chairman of the Student Federation of the University of Chile Camila Vallejo is also one of the speakers ( Vocera de la Confech ) of the Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile ( Confech ), an umbrella organization of all students of the universities that have an elected student student council. The organization is managed by the speakers and is one of the leaders in the school and student protests in Chile 2011-2012.

Popularity

According to the survey of a private, nonprofit organization of beginning of October 2011 Camila Vallejo, the Chilean woman who is most admired by Chilean adolescents. In a survey that was carried out by Radio Cooperativa and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in early December, Camila Vallejo was elected in Chile for Person of the Year 2011. The US-based Time magazine led Camila Vallejo in the list of the most relevant figures of 2011. Readers of the Guardian chose Camila Vallejo for Person of the Year 2011. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais is Vallejo on the list of 100 Latin American personalities of the year 2011th It is acted as the Gladys Marin of the 21st century, which was a known communist politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile.

Criticism

Camila Vallejo has been criticized for its trip to Cuba for the World Meeting of Communist Youth in early April, 2012. There she met Fidel Castro and praised the communist rule on the island, but refused to meet dissidents. After visiting Fidel Castro said she literally: What Fidel Castro says to us, reflected and pretending is for us directions. Criticism she received from living in Cuba dissidents and exiles, but also by the Chilean opposition.