Education
Bernardo O"Higgins Military School.
military politician university professor
Bernardo O"Higgins Military School.
He was also a designated Senator between 1998 and 2006. He was replaced by Humberto Gordon. In 1998, he was designated Senator after a nomination from the National Security Council.
Later the positions of the Designated Senators were eliminated because of the Constitutional Reforms of 2004.
He died at the age of 89 on 24 January 2015.
As a Senator he opposed the Concert of Parties for Democracy on the Indigenous law, seeing it as bad for development, and in 2001 he defended landmines as necessary.
He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the Army. General Canessa was Army Vice Commander-in-chief from 1983 to 1985 and a member of the Government Junta from 1985 to 1986.