Daniel Jadue

Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue[lower-alpha 1] (born June 28, 1967) is a Chilean architect, sociologist and politician. He is a member of the Communist Party of Chile, and currently serves as the mayor of Recoleta.

Daniel Jadue
Jadue in 2017
Mayor of Recoleta
Assumed office
6 December 2012
Preceded bySol Letelier
Personal details
Born
Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue

(1967-06-28) 28 June 1967
Santiago, Chile
Political partyCommunist Party
Alma materUniversity of Chile
Catholic University of the North
Websitewww.danieljadue.cl (in Spanish)

Early life and education

Daniel Jadue was born in Recoleta, Santiago to small business owners Magaly del Carmen Jadue Jadue and Juan Fariz Jadue Jadue.[1] He was estranged from his father, a supporter of Augusto Pinochet, for most of his life.[2] Jadue is the grandson of Christian Palestinian immigrants who arrived in Chile during the first half of the last century.

He graduated from the University of Chile with degrees in sociology and architecture. He has a degree in total quality management from Catholic University of the North, a master's degree in urban planning, and a specialist degree in social housing, also from the University of Chile.[3]

Career

He has specialized in community management for the last 15 years.[4] He has a vast professional career linked to local development management and local governments. He has been project manager for community development plans and participatory regulatory plans in several Chilean communes. He has also carried out research on quality of life, gender, youth crime, employment and poverty in cities in Latin America and Europe. He has participated with presentations in international seminars on quality of life, gender, housing and social Comptroller's office. He was a professor at the Architecture and Urban Sociology Workshop at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile.[5]

In the architectural field, he was project manager in several public works such as the Municipality of Pichilemu, the Estación Central Cultural Center, the Pedro Aguirre Cerda House of Culture, the Fort of Purén Historical Park and the headquarters of the Union of Supervisors of Chuquicamata mine.

He was an advisor to the Chuquicamata unions on issues related to the process of transformation of Chuquicamata into an exclusive Industrial zone and to some unions in the field of salmon farms in the Los Lagos Region in the preparation of their collective bargaining.

For more than 5 years, he was a panelist for the talk show El Termómetro on Chilevisión and participated in a political analysis program every Friday on Radio Nuevo Mundo. He is a frequent panelist for analysis of international politics on international television stations such as TeleSur, Russia Today, HispanTV and NTN24. He is also a columnist for El Mostrador[6] and Radio Cooperativa.[7]

Political career

Early political career

His political career began within Palestinian organizations linked to the Palestine Liberation Organization during the 1980s.[8][9] He was president of the General Union of Palestinian Students between 1987 and 1991[10] and general coordinator of the Palestinian Youth Organization of Latin America and the Caribbean between 1991 and 1993.[11]

He joined the Communist Party of Chile in 1993,[12] a day after the signing of the Oslo I Accord. He was secretary of the Directorate of Communist Students and candidate for the University of Chile Student Federation in 1996.

He unsuccessfully ran for congress in 2001 and 2005. He was also a candidate for mayor of Recoleta in 2004, 2008 and finally in 2012 when he won the mayoralty. Today he is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Chile.

Since 2003 he has been President of the La Chimba social and cultural development center in Recoleta (Centro de Desarrollo Social y Cultural La Chimba, de Recoleta),[13] which has maintained, popular high schools, legal assistance, and a system of free professional operations for the neighborhood councils of the Recoleta commune since 2006. The La Chimba center also develops a constant work of popular education for democracy, the empowerment of social leaders and environmental sustainability.

Mayor of Recoleta
Jadue with minister general secretariat of government Paula Narváez in 2017

In 2012, supported by the pact For a Just Chile, which groups together different political parties and social organizations in Chile, he ran for the third time in the municipal elections in Recoleta, achieving victory with 41.68% of the votes.[14] As a candidate for mayor, he committed himself to a "citizen and participatory local government program" adhering to the citizen initiative of VotaPrograma,[15] a program that is currently under development thanks to the participation of more than 5000 neighbors who have participated in the PLADECO Community Development Plan.

In the field of culture, he has distinguished itself for bringing Chile to the International World Of Music, Arts & Dance (WOMAD) Festival,[16][17] created by Peter Gabriel, and for the creation of the Popular School of Theater,[18] among other policies aimed at massifying the cultural creation and cultural audience in the commune, through the Jazz and Theater Festivals in the neighborhoods.

He ran for the municipal elections of Chile in 2016 to continue as the mayor of the Recoleta commune. He was reelected with more than 56% of the votes among five candidates and managed to integrate four communist councilors into the municipal council out of a total of eight. His term ended in December 2020.

Bibliography
  • Jadue, Daniel (2014). Palestina, crónica de un asedio [Palestine, chronicle of a siege] (in Spanish). Intermaterialmedia. ISBN 978-9569427039.

Notes
  1. This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Jadue and the second or maternal family name is Jadue.

References
  1. "Resumen de declaración". InfoProbidad (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  2. ""De mi padre aprendí a no ser como él"". Daniel Jadue (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
  3. "Acerca de" [About]. Daniel Jadue (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  4. "Presentarán libro "La belleza desarmada" en Chile". iglesiadesantiago.cl (in Spanish).
  5. "Daniel Jadue | Opinión en Cooperativa" (in Spanish).
  6. "Daniel Jadue, Author at El Mostrador". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  7. "Archivo de columnas de Daniel Jadue". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish).
  8. "Chilean mayor with antisemitic expressions". World Zionist Organization. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  9. "La fórmula "popular" de Daniel Jadue". Teletrece. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  10. "Alcalde chileno con expresiones antisemitas e incitación al odio | Aurora". www.aurora-israel.co.il (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  11. "Daniel Jadue: El particular estilo del alcalde "popular"". El Desconcierto (in Spanish). 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  12. Artaza, Francisco (2020-08-09). "Jadue: Una candidatura incómoda". La Tercera. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  13. "Daniel Jadue buscaría llegar a la Moneda de la mano del partido comunista". El Informador (in Spanish). 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  14. "La sorpresa comunista en Recoleta". 24Horas.cl (in Spanish). 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  15. "Votaprograma" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  16. Minay, Sebastián (2020-04-08). "Jadue y el oficio de la Contraloría por los millonarios gastos en el Festival Womad: "Estas platas se rinden todos los años"". La Tercera. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  17. "Peter Gabriel Felicita a Daniel Jadue por su Biblioteca Popular". Teletrece. 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  18. "La Escuela Popular de Teatro beneficia a más de 140 estudiantes de Recoleta". Fundación Teatro a Mil (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-09-30.
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