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Chilean politician, lawyer and diplomat In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Valdés and the second or maternal family name is Subercaseaux.

Gabriel Valdés Subercaseaux (July 3, 1919 – September 7, 2011) was a Chilean politician, lawyer and diplomat. Valdes served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile under President Eduardo Frei Montalva from 1964 to 1970. A vocal opponent of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which held power from 1973 to 1990, Valdés worked for Chile's transition to democracy.

Valdes served as President of the Senate of Chile, considered the second most important office in the country after the presidency, from 1990 to 1996. He retired from the Senate in 2006.

Gabriel Valdés died from bronchitis on September 7, 2011, at his home in Santiago, Chile, at the age of 92. He had recently been admitted as a patient at Clínica Alemana for treatment of a long illness.

Gabriel Valdés married composer Sylvia Soublette in 1946. Their sons are Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chile's former Ambassador to the United States, and Maximiano Valdés, musician and conductor, former music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

During his tenure as Minister of Foreign Affairs the Alto Palena–Encuentro River dispute was solved under the 1966 arbitration award in which Queen Elizabeth II mediated. Also the killing of Hernán Merino in the Laguna del Desierto incident happen in 1965.

References

Davison, Phil (2011-09-10). "Gabriel Valdes: Politician who returned from exile to help lead Chile's transition from the Pinochet era into democracy". The Independent. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
^ "Former Chilean senator Gabriel Valdés dies". I Love Chile. 2011-09-07. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
"El día que mataron al teniente Merino en la Laguna del Desierto" (in Spanish). Diario Palena. October 4, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2024.

Presidents of the Senate of Chile

Pre-Republican Chile
(1812–1833)

Patria Vieja (1812–14)	Vivar (1812–13) Henríquez (1813) Egaña (1813) Ruiz-Tagle (1813–14)
Patria Nueva (1818–23)	O'Higgins Period (1818–23) Eyzaguirre (1822–23) Ruiz-Tagle (1823)
Organization of the Republic (1823–29)	Elizondo (1826) Vial del Río (1823–24) Eyzaguirre (1824–25) Egaña (1825–27) Freire (1827) B. del Solar Marín (1827–28) Fariñas Ugalde (1827–28) Vicuña (1829) Chilean Civil War of 1829–1830

First Republic
1833 Constitution
(1833–1925)

Conservative Period (1831–61)	Errázuriz Aldunate (1833–34) Cienfuegos (1834–35) Vial Santelices (1835–37) Benavente (1837) Elizondo (1837–39) J. del Solar Marín (1839–40) Gandarillas (1839–40) Benavente (1841–42) J. Urrutia Manzano (1842–43) Alcalde Bascuñán (1843–44) Formas (1844) Ortúzar Formas (1844–45) J. del Solar Marín (1845–46) Vial del Río (1846) Pinto (1846–51) Vial Formas (1851–52) Pérez (1852–53) Lazcano Mujica (1853–54) Subercaseaux Mercado (1854–55) Urmeneta (1855–56) Larraín (1856–57) Benavente (1857–58) Alcalde Bascuñán (1858–59) Cosuiño (1859–61)
Liberal Period (1861–91)	Correa de Saa (1861–63) Cosuiño (1863–64) Torres de Velasco (1864–65) Matte Messia (1865–66) Ossa Mercado (1865–67) Concha y Toro (1867–68) de Borja (1868–69) Errázuriz (1869–70) Correa de Saa (1870–71) Vicuña (1871–72) Borgoño (1872–73) Concha y Cerda (1873–75) Aldunate (1875–76) A. Reyes Cotapos (1876–77) Matte Messia (1877–78) Valdés (1878–79) Lastarria (1879–80) Vicuña Mackenna (1880–82) Vial Formas (1882–84) Martínez Cuadros (1984) Varas (1884–85) Altamirano (1885–86) A. Ibáñez (1886–87) Castillo Andueza (1887–88) Vicuña Guerrero (1888–89) Reyes Palazuelos (1889–90) Covarrubias (1890–91) A. Matte Pérez (1891)
Parliamentary Period (1891–25)	Silva (1891–92) Gandarillas (1892–93) Reyes Palazuelos (1893–94) S. Sanfuentes (1894–95) Reyes Palazuelos (1896) Barros Luco (1896–97) Lazcano (1897–98) Edwards (1898) J. Errázuriz Echaurren (1898–00) Blanco (1900–02) Valdés Cuevas (1902–03) Lazcano (1903–04) Rozas Garfias (1904–05) Puga (1905–06) Sanfuentes (1906–07) R. Matte (1907–08) Reyes Palazuelos (1908) Escobar (1908–09) Reyes Palazuelos (1909) Vergara Ruíz (1909) R. Matte (1909–12) Valdés Vergara (1912–13) Aldunate Solar (1913–14) Ochagavía (1914–15) Charme (1915–18) Tocornal (1918–19) Claro (1920–24) Yáñez (1924)

Second Republic
1925 Constitution
(1925–1973)

Oyarzún (1925–30)
Opaso (1930–32)
Cabero (1932–33)
I. Urrutia Manzano (1933–34)
Marambio (1934–35)
I. Urrutia Manzano (1935–36)
Maza (1935–37)
Cruchaga Tocornal (1937–41)
Durán (1941–44)
Opaso (1944)
Urrejola (1944–45)
Alessandri Palma (1945–49)
Álvarez (1949)
Alessandri Palma (1949–50)
F. Alessandri Rodríguez (1950–58)
Pérez de Arce (1958)
Videla (1958–62)
Zepeda (1962–65)
Ahumada (1965)
Reyes Vicuña (1965–66)
Maurás (1966)
Reyes Vicuña (1966)
S. Allende (1966–69)
Pablo (1969–71)
Aylwin (1971–72)
Palma (1972–73)
Acuña (1973)
Frei Montalva (1973)

Pinochet dictatorship
(1973–1990)

Government Junta

Third Republic
1980 Constitution
Transition to democracy
(1990–present)

Valdés (1990–95)
Diez (1995–96)
Romero Pizarro (1996–97)
Zaldívar (1997–04)
H. Larraín (2004–05)
Romero Pizarro (2005–06)
Frei Ruiz-Tagle (2006–08)
Zaldívar (2008–09)
Novoa (2009–10)
Pizarro (2010–11)
Girardi (2011–12)
Escalona (2012–13)
Pizarro (2013–14)
I. Allende (2014–15)
Walker (2015–16)
Lagos (2016–17)
Zaldívar (2017–18)
Montes (2018–19)
Quintana (2019–20)
Muñoz (2020–21)
Provoste (2021–21)
Rincón (2021-22)
Elizalde (2022-)

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