Background
HUERTA, Ismael was born on October 13, 1916. Son of Rear-Admiral Ismael Huerta Lira and Lucrecia Diaz Vargas.
HUERTA, Ismael was born on October 13, 1916. Son of Rear-Admiral Ismael Huerta Lira and Lucrecia Diaz Vargas.
Sacred Heart School, Valparaiso, Naval Academy, Ecole Superieure d’Electricite, Paris, Naval Polytechnic Academy, Chile.
He joined the navy in 1931, and was commissioned as an ensign in 1936. In 1944, was promoted to lieutenant. In 1949, to captain and in 1955, to commander.
By 1972 he was Chief of Naval Shipyards.
On December 12, 1972, President Salvador Allende named him Minister of Public Works as part of his "military cabinet". Following the coup, he was reappointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1974.
In February 1974 he met Henry Kissinger in México city to ask for United States support. Due to the extremely bad image of the military regime immediately after the coup, he was replaced in June 1974, by Admiral Patricio Carvajal.
On July 30, 1974 Huerta was named Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations. He held this position until May 16, 1977, when he was replaced by Sergio Diez.
On June 2 of the same year, he retired from the navy. On September 14, 1977 he became the President (Rector) of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Federico Santa María University), where he remained until May 17, 1984 when he resigned due to health problems. Admiral Huerta died in 1997, as results of a cardiac embolism.
As Chancellor, he attended the general assembly of the United Nations in New York, to defend the 1973 Chilean coup d"état.
Organization Committee, Pacific Conference, Vina del March 1970. College, of Chilean Engineers. Institute of Mechanical Engineers of Chile.
Married Guillermina Wallace Dunsmore Aird in 1942.