Luis Videla Salinas

Luis Videla Salinas was a Chilean educator, lawyer and socialist politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1937 and 1945.

Biography

Videla Salinas was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of Luis Arturo Videla Gallo and Susana del Carmen Salinas Valdivia. He completed his secondary education at the San Ignacio School in Santiago and later studied pedagogy in literature at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile, graduating as a teacher in 1914.
He worked as a secondary and university-level educator, teaching at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and at the University of Chile between 1922 and 1930.
In 1916, he married Livia Stefoni Venegas in Viña del Mar.

Videla Salinas was a member of the Socialist Party. In 1937, he was elected Deputy for the 7th Departmental Group—3rd Metropolitan District of Puente Alto—serving on the Standing Committee on Education during the 1937–1941 legislative period.
He was re-elected in 1941 as Deputy for the 10th Departmental Group, representing San Fernando and Santa Cruz, serving until 1945. During this term, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Medical-Social Assistance and Hygiene.
In 1944, he joined the Authentic Socialist Party, returning to the Socialist Party of Chile after its dissolution in 1949.

Videla Salinas served as director of a construction company dedicated to educational infrastructure from 1950 onward. He also authored works on parliamentary activity and educational policy, including publications focused on physical education in higher education institutions.