Germán Picó Cañas

Born in 1905 in Santiago, a lawyer and a Radical Party militant, he was the president of the CORFO from 1944 to 1948, leading the relative success of the company with support from the Minister of Fiances Arturo Matte, taking the last great triumph of the ISI model, and gaining notoriety inside the Radical Party, which later gave him the leading position in diverse national organizations, where he demonstrated a great political capacity, and quite the ability to negotiate with the opposition, specifically the Conservative Party.

Respected by the Liberal Party, and being one of the main leaders of the Anti-Communist faction of the Radical Party, he easily conquered the leading position of the Coalition, though the decrease in support for the party inability of the coalition to reform the ISI model during the governments of Alfredo Duhalde and Pedro Enrique Alfonso, he predicted a historic defeat against Carlos Ibanez del Campo. Surprisingly, the death of Ibanez a few months before the elections and the terrible earthquake of Valdivia during the election of 1960 divided the opposition, giving a new opportunity for Radicalism to rise, which with a 36%, managed to triumph against the candidate of the Conservative Party, the candidate of the Socialist Party, and the candidate of the FRAP.

Now, with this miraculous mandate, President German confronts the reconstruction of Chilean Society, alongside rebuilding the south after the devastating effect the earthquake had, and the social question, like reuniting the Chilean family after years of let-downs.