Adolfo Moreno Lajaña

Adolfo Moreno Lajaña (27 September 1907 – 3 February 1982) was a Chilean physician and politician affiliated successively to the Communist Party of Chile.

He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 22nd Departmental Grouping – Valdivia, La Unión, and Río Bueno – during the legislative period 1957–1961.

He was born in Los Ángeles on 27 September 1907, the son of Enrique Moreno Olea and Clotilde Lajaña Rodríguez. He married Albertina Calderara Subiabre in Valdivia on 9 May 1940, and they had two daughters.^[1]

He completed his primary studies at the Dominican Fathers’ School of Recoleta in Santiago and later entered the University of Chile Faculty of Medicine, earning his degree as a surgeon in 1937. Between 1944 and 1945, he pursued postgraduate studies at the Harvard Medical School through a government scholarship.

Moreno Lajaña practiced medicine in Valdivia at the Hospital San Juan de Dios from 1938 to 1957. After relocating to Santiago, he worked at Hospital San José between 1962 and 1982.^[2]

He was also a councilman (regidor) of the Municipality of Valdivia, where a street now bears his name: “Regidor Adolfo Moreno Lajaña.”

He was elected Deputy for the 22nd Departmental Grouping “Valdivia, La Unión, and Río Bueno” for the legislative period 1957–1961, representing the Labor Party. During his term he served on the Permanent Commission of Public Education. Later, he joined the Communist Party of Chile.

His political activity reflected his close ties to international socialist movements. He received invitations to visit the China People's Republic, the Soviet Union (USSR) through the Society of Friendship, the German Democratic Republic, and Cuba.

Adolfo Moreno Lajaña died in Santiago on 3 February 1982.

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