10 Facts About Mireya Baltra

Mireya Baltra Moreno was a Chilean sociologist, journalist, and politician of the Communist Party of Chile.

Mireya Baltra was a councillor and a deputy for Santiago, and served as Minister of Labour and Social Welfare in Salvador Allende's government.

Mireya Baltra's father was a member of the Radical Party.

Mireya Baltra worked as a reporter for Vea magazine from 1948 to 1950, and as a columnist for the newspaper El Siglo from 1960 to 1964, her first article being "La mujer como fuerza politica".

Mireya Baltra wrote for El Espectador and Las Noticias de Ultima Hora.

In 1963 Mireya Baltra was elected to the Santiago council, and was re-elected in 1967.

Mireya Baltra had previously tried to enter Chile with other exiles: two attempts in planes, which were turned back to Argentina; and through the Cuevas tunnel between Argentina and Chile, when twenty-one Chilean exiles were arrested, beaten and sent back to Argentina by agents of the CNI and the Carabineros de Chile.

Mireya Baltra returned to Santiago and joined the struggle against the military dictatorship.

Mireya Baltra was arrested after a secret press conference, and given a prison sentence under state security laws and for illicit association.

Mireya Baltra was a member of the editorial board of Cronica digital: informacion para cada dia, contributing articles on political topics and historical subjects.