Washington Saldías González
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|order=Councillor of Pichilemu
|term_start=6 December 1996
|term_end=6 December 2004
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|birth_name=Washington Ramón Saldías González
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1949|8|24}}
|birth_place=Chile
|occupation=Councillor of Pichilemu
|party=Independent{{Cite web
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|title=SISTEMA DE DESPLIEGUE DE COMPUTOS - MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR
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|access-date=13 August 2010
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|residence={{flagicon|Pichilemu}} Pichilemu, Chile
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Washington Ramón Saldías González (born August 24, 1949) is a Chilean politician. Saldías is also the executive editor of Pichilemu News.
Saldías was elected Councillor of Pichilemu with 870 votes (13.70%) from a total of 6,352 votes in Chilean municipal election of 1996.
Biography
Saldías was born in Santiago, Chile on August 24, 1949. His family moved to Pichilemu in 1950, and he stayed there until 1964.
In 1975, Saldías was hired by La Tercera as Correspondent in Pichilemu for the newspaper. In 1979, he became Governor of the recently founded Cardenal Caro Province.{{Cite web
|url= http://www.pichilemunews.cl/_sitios/_colaboradores/somos.html
|title=..Pichilemu News -- Pichilemu en Noticias..: Editorial
|work=pichilemunews.cl
|access-date=13 August 2010
}} Saldías acquired the rights to edit Periódico Pichilemu (founded in 1944), from January 31, 1986 until 1990. His project remained dormant until January 2000, when he founded Pichilemu News.
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{{succession box
| title = Councillor of Pichilemu
| with = Carlos Leyton Labarca
| with2 = Aldo Polanco Contreras
| with3 = Washington Saldías González
| with4 = Mariano Polanco Galarce
| with5 = Mario Bichón Cáceres
| years = 1996–2000
| before = Jorge Vargas González
| before2 = Mario Bichón Cáceres
| before3 = Mariano Polanco Galarce
| before4 = Aldo Polanco Contreras
| before5 = Raúl Tobar Pavez
| after = Carlos Leyton Labarca
| after2 = Aldo Polanco Contreras
| after3 = Víctor Rojas González
| after4 = Roberto Córdova Carreño
| after5 = Washington Saldías González
}}
{{succession box
| title = Councillor of Pichilemu
| with = Carlos Leyton Labarca
| with2 = Víctor Rojas González
| with3 = Roberto Córdova Carreño
| with4 = Aldo Polanco Contreras
| years = 2000–2004
| before = Carlos Leyton Labarca
| before2 = Aldo Polanco Contreras
| before3 = Washington Saldías González
| before4 = Mariano Polanco Galarce
| before5 = Mario Bichón Cáceres
| after = Aldo Polanco Contreras
| after2 = Héctor Cornejo Galarce
| after3 = Víctor Rojas González
| after4 = Hernán Garrido Salas
| after5 = Roberto Córdova Carreño
Marcelo Cabrera Martínez
}}
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Category:Politicians from Santiago, Chile
Category:Pichilemu City Council members
Category:Chilean newspaper editors
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