Sergio Onofre Jarpa

For the Chilean landscape painter, seeOnofre Jarpa

In thisSpanish name,the first or paternalsurnameisJarpaand the second or maternal family name isReyes.

Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Minister of the Interior
In office 10 August 1983 – 12 February 1985
President	Augusto Pinochet
Preceded by	Enrique Montero Marx
Succeeded by	Ricardo García Rodríguez
Member of the Senate
In office 15 May 1973 – 21 September 1973
Constituency	LIII
In office 11 March 1990 – 11 March 1994
Constituency	LV
Personal details
Born	(1921-03-08)8 March 1921 Rengo, Chile
Died	19 April 2020(2020-04-19)(aged 99) Las Condes
Political party	Agrarian Labor Party (1950-1958) National Action (1963-1966) National Party (1966-1973) National Labour Front (1985-1987) National Renewal (1987-1997)
Spouse	Silvia Moreno Andwandter (1950s-1978; her death)
Domestic partner	Mina Huerta Dunsmore (1980s-present)
Relations	Onofre Jarpa(ancestor)
Children	Sergio Jr., Jorge, Francisco, Isabel
Parent(s)	Francisco Javier Jarpa Santa Cruz (father) Raquel Reyes Corona (mother)
Alma mater	University of Chile
Occupation	Diplomat, farmer
Awards	Premio al Mérito Geopolítico(1991)

Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes(8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was aChileanright-wing politician who served as one of the founders of theNational Renewal (Chile)Party.

Biography

Coming from a rural background, he studied agriculture at theUniversity of Chile.He first became involved in politics in the 1950s, initially with the youth movement of theAgrarian Labor Partybefore becoming involved in theNational ActionwithJorge Prat.He was instrumental in the formation of theNational Partyin 1966 and served as leader of the opposition to theleft-winggovernment and, from 1971, editor of the anti-socialist journalTribuna.

Elected to theSenate of Chilein the1973 election,Jarpa became a diplomat following the1973 Chilean coup d'état,serving as a delegate to theUnited Nationsand before becoming ambassador toColombia(1976-1978) and thenArgentina(1978-1983).Jarpa was appointedMinister of the Interiorin 1983 with special orders to open dialogue with the opposition, which had organised under the name Democratic Alliance. This policy of appeasement was quickly abandoned by Pinochet however.He held the post until 1985.He formed his own political movement, theNational Labour Front(Frente Nacional del Trabajo), in 1985 and this group was one of the three that formedNational Renewaltwo years later.He returned to the Senate as a representative of this new party in 1990.

Alongside his political career Jarpa was a noted author on socio-political topics and he was awarded thePremio al Mérito Geopolíticoby the Chilean Institute ofGeopoliticsin 1991.

He died fromCOVID-19on 19 April 2020, during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Chile.