1. Camila Vallejo has been recognized as one of the most influential communist figures in 21st-century Chile and described as "the world's most glamorous revolutionary" by The New York Times Magazine.
21 Facts About Camila Vallejo
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Camila Vallejo is often regarded as the symbolic successor to former deputy Gladys Marin.
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Reinaldo Camila Vallejo owned an air conditioning business, while Mariela Dowling was a homemaker.
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Camila Vallejo spent her childhood between the communes of Macul and La Florida, and attended Colegio Raimapu, a private school in La Florida.
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In 2006, Camila Vallejo entered the University of Chile to study geography.
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Camila Vallejo was counselor of FECh in 2008, and was chosen as its president in November 2010, becoming only the second woman to hold this post in the 105-year history of the student union.
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Camila Vallejo has acquired public attention as a leading spokesperson and as leader of the 2011 student protests in Chile, alongside other student leaders, including Giorgio Jackson from the Catholic University of Chile Student Federation and Camilo Ballesteros from the University of Santiago, Chile Student Federation.
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On 7 December 2011, Camila Vallejo was defeated in her bid for re-election by Gabriel Boric, a law school graduate; Boric would later appoint her to his Presidential Cabinet after becoming President of Chile in March 2022.
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In November 2012, Camila Vallejo was proclaimed by the Communist Party of Chile as one of their candidates for Congress in the 2013 elections.
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Camila Vallejo was joined in Congress with other fellow student leaders, including Giorgio Jackson, Gabriel Boric and Karol Cariola, who formed the so-called "student bench".
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Camila Vallejo became a prominent figure as deputy and was re-elected in the 2017 general election.
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Camila Vallejo was one of the main promoters of the legislation to reduce the working hours to 40 hours per week.
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Camila Vallejo was described as his campaign spokesperson by several sources.
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Camila Vallejo assumed the office on 11 March 2022, along President Boric and the rest of his cabinet.
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Ocasio-Cortez joined Camila Vallejo in demanding the USgovernment apologize for the role it played in General Pinochet's 1973 coup.
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Camila Vallejo has been labeled by the media as the most important and influential Communist personality of the 21st century in Chile, and as the symbolic successor of Gladys Marin.
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Historian Gabriel Salazar sparked controversy by stating in an interview with newspaper El Mercurio de Calama that Camila Vallejo should quit the Communist Party if she was "intelligent enough".
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Camila Vallejo stated that she had become the new caudillo of the Communist Party.
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Camila Vallejo gave birth to a daughter on 6 October 2013.
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In 2016, Camila Vallejo confirmed her separation from Sarmiento and her relationship with musician Abel Zicavo.
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Camila Vallejo gave birth to her son in February 2025.