ABOUT DIEGO PORTALES
Conservative political figure whose ideologies shaped the Chilean Constitution of 1833. His assassination helped shift public opinion to support the war against the Peru–Bolivian Confederation.
He came from a family of merchants, eventually becoming one himself.
His remains were missing for over a century when they were faintly uncovered in 2005.
He married his cousin in 1819, and after she died he had three children with a mistress.
He was born in the same country as poet Pablo Neruda .
