Portales, Diego José Victor

Japanese: ポルタレス（英語表記）Portales， Diego José Victor

Born: June 26, 1793, Santiago
[Died] June 6, 1837. A Chilean politician and businessman from Valparaiso. He made his fortune in 1824 by running a tobacco and alcohol monopoly. In 1830 he joined the Conservative Party, and in 1831 he became chief cabinet minister under President J. Prieto, and for the next seven years he ruled as a virtual dictator. In 1833 he promulgated a new constitution, limiting the right to vote to the educated and propertied classes, placing importance on Catholicism, and establishing the principle of a centralized oligarchy. As a result, political stability and economic and cultural prosperity were achieved, but he himself declared war on Peru in 1836 in opposition to the formation of the Bolivian-Peruvian Union, and although he was victorious, he was shot dead by his subordinates in 1837.

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Japanese:

[生]1793.6.26. サンチアゴ
[没]1837.6.6. バルパライソ
チリの政治家，実業家。 1824年たばこ，酒などの専売事業を営んで財を成した。 30年保守党に入り，31年 J.プリエト大統領のもとで首席閣僚となり，以後7年間事実上の独裁政治を行なった。 33年新憲法を公布し選挙権を知識有産階級に限り，カトリックを重視し，中央集権的寡頭政治体制の原則を樹立した。その結果，政治的安定と経済的・文化的繁栄がもたらされたが，彼自身は，36年ボリビア，ペルー連合の形成に反対してペルーに宣戦，勝利を得たものの，37年部下に射殺された。

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