{{Short description|Chilean politician (born 1945)}} {{family name hatnote|Correa|Ríos|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Enrique Correa | image = Enrique_Correa_Ríos.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1945|11|14}} | birth_place = Ovalle, Chile | office = Minister Secretary General of Government | term_start = 11 March 1990 | term_end = 11 March 1994 | president = Patricio Aylwin | predecessor = Cristián Labbé Galilea | successor = Víctor Manuel Rebolledo | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (BA)}} | occupation = Politician | party = {{unbulleted list|Christian Democratic Party<br/>(?−1969)|Popular Unitary Action Movement<br/>(1969−1973)|MAPU Obrero Campesino<br/>(1973−1985)|Socialist Party<br/>(1985−present)}} | profession = Philosopher | parents = Fernando Correa<br/>Loreta Ríos | spouse = María Catalina Bau<br/>(1969−1991)<br/>María Verónica Paz<br/>(1992−present) | children = Six | footnotes = }} '''Enrique Fernando Correa Ríos''' (born 14 November 1945) is a Chilean politician who served as minister of State under Patricio Aylwin's government (1990–1994) and Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/2016/04/19/enrique-correa-patricio-aylwin-ministro.shtml|title=Ex ministro Enrique Correa: El gabinete de Patricio Aylwin no fue de hombres débiles|publisher=Radio Bío-Bío|first1=Daniel|last1=Medina|date=19 April 2016|accessdate=12 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.t13.cl/noticia/politica/enrique-correatodos-somos-lagos|title=Enrique Correa, ex ministro de Aylwin: 'Lagos es simbólico y emblemático de una generación'|publisher=Canal 13|date=3 December 2016|accessdate=12 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/politica/patricio-aylwin/enrique-correa-recordo-la-amistad-de-patricio-aylwin-y-clodomiro-almeyda/2016-04-20/100337.html|title=Enrique Correa recordó la amistad de Patricio Aylwin y Clodomiro Almeyda|publisher=Radio Cooperativa|date=20 April 2016|accessdate=12 April 2012}}</ref>
In Chile, Correa is well known for his lobbying activities with ''El Mostrador'' calling him "the king of lobby".<ref name=mostrador>{{Cite news |title=Enrique Correa: el rey de lobby que menos audiencias registra en la ley que regula el lobby |url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/sin-editar/2017/11/28/enrique-correa-el-rey-de-lobby-que-menos-audiencias-registra-en-la-ley-que-regula-el-lobby/ |last= |date=2017-11-28 |archive-date= |access-date=2023-07-28 |work=El Mostrador |language=Spanish}}</ref> He is the founder and owner of the lobbying company Imaginacción.<ref name=mostrador/>
== Early life ==
Son of Enrique Correa Padilla and Loreto Ríos Medina,<ref name="anales">{{cite web |url=http://anales.cl/correa-rios-enrique/ |title=Enrique Correa Ríos |website=anales.cl |date=2015 |access-date=7 October 2021 |language=es}}</ref> cousin of Germán Correa,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Insunza |first1=Andrea |last2=Ortega Serrano |first2=Javier |title=Enrique Correa: una biografía sobre el poder |publisher=Catalonia |year=2025 |isbn=978-956-415-145-8 |page=28 |language=es}}</ref> he attended a public school and later the Liceo de Hombres in his hometown. At the age of twelve he joined the Christian Democratic Youth (JDC) and later became a seminarian in Santiago.<ref name="anales"/>
He studied philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he became close to Jaime Castillo Velasco and Rodrigo Ambrosio. In July 1967 he assumed the presidency of the Christian Democratic Youth, but two years later, following his reaction to the Puerto Montt massacre, he was brought before the party’s disciplinary tribunal and removed from office.<ref>''El Mercurio'', 1969</ref> He subsequently joined the Popular Unitary Action Movement (MAPU),<ref name="anales"/> a movement formed by former Christian Democrats and led by Ambrosio.
In 1969 he married commercial engineer María Catalina Bau Aedo, from whom he divorced in 1991,<ref name="anales"/> and the following year he entered into a second marriage with actress María Verónica Paz Eyzaguirre.<ref name="anales"/> From his marriages he had six children.
== Political career == On 7 March 1973, already a member of the MAPU, he took part in a party split alongside Fernando Flores.<ref>''La Tercera'', 8 March 1973</ref>
After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet against the government of socialist president Salvador Allende, he sought asylum in the embassy of Peru and later travelled to the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic as a representative of the MAPU.<ref name="quepasa1">''Qué Pasa'', 4 July 2008, p. 10</ref>
He lived underground during the dictatorship and, with the return to democracy, became one of the negotiators with Pinochetism.<ref name="quepasa1"/>
=== Democratic period === During the 1980s, he served as general coordinator of the “No” campaign that led the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite, and joined the Socialist Party of Chile (PS).<ref name="quepasa1"/>
He later worked on the presidential campaign of Patricio Aylwin, who, once elected president, appointed him Minister Secretary General of Government.<ref name="elmercurio1">''El Mercurio'', 14 July 2004; C5</ref> After leaving office in 1994, he founded a consultancy that later evolved into the lobbying firm Imaginacción Consultores.<ref name="elmercurio1"/>
He served as director (1997) of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), advising several governments,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.flacsochile.org/institucional/historia/ |title=Institutional history of FLACSO Chile |website=FLACSO Chile |language=es}}</ref> and was a member of the Commission on Historical Truth and New Deal with Indigenous Peoples, appointed by President Ricardo Lagos in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gob.cl/noticias/comision-de-verdad-historica-y-nuevo-trato/ |title=Commission on Historical Truth and New Deal |website=Government of Chile |language=es}}</ref>
In July 2004 he resigned from the Socialist Party of Chile over disputes related to mining royalties.<ref>''La Nación'', 14 July 2004; p. 5</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cooperativa.cl/p4_noticias/site/artic/20040713/pags/20040713164548.html |title=Former minister Enrique Correa resigns from the Socialist Party |website=Radio Cooperativa |date=13 July 2004 |language=es}}</ref> He requested readmission to the party in September 2009.<ref>''La Tercera'', 13 September 2009; pp. 8–9</ref>
He is widely regarded as one of the country’s leading lobbyists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olca.cl/oca/chile/regionmp/lobby010.htm |title=Lobbying in Chile |website=OLCA |language=es}}</ref> Through his firm Imaginacción, he has provided communications advice to figures such as Cristián Precht, former army commanders-in-chief Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba and Juan Emilio Cheyre, business groups Penta and SQM, former ministers Patricio Rosende and Javiera Blanco, film director Nicolás López<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/nicolas-lopez-rol-imaginaccion-la-crisis-del-metoo/230477/ |title=Nicolás López: The role of Imaginacción in the #MeToo crisis |website=La Tercera |date=4 July 2018 |language=es}}</ref> and television director Herval Abreu.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/ahora-herval-abreu-ocho-casos-muestran-la-amplia-cartera-enrique-correa/150909/ |title=Now with Herval Abreu: Eight cases showing the broad portfolio of Enrique Correa |website=La Tercera |date=2 May 2018 |language=es}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://anales.cl/correa-rios-enrique/ Profile at Annales de la República]
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