Tulio Manuel Marambio Marchant (10 April 1911 – 29 April 1999) was a Chilean military officer and academic. He served as Minister of Defense during the administration of President Eduardo Frei Montalva from 1968 to 1969.
Family and education He was the son of Manuel Jesús Marambio and Rosa Amelia Marchant.Armando de Ramón et al., Biografías de chilenos: miembros de los poderes Ejecutivo, Legislativo y Judicial (1876–1973), Vol. III, Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 2003, p. 82.
He entered the Bernardo O'Higgins Military School in Santiago, reaching the rank of lieutenant in 1932, captain in 1939, major in 1948, lieutenant colonel in 1953, colonel in 1959, brigadier general in 1965, and divisional general in 1967.
Public life He worked as a professor of history, military strategy and tactics, eventually becoming director of the Chilean Army War Academy in 1964.
Abroad, he served as a military adviser and attaché in various Chilean missions.La Segunda (Santiago), 26 July 1996, p. 12.
In 1968, the same year of his retirement from the Chilean Army, President Eduardo Frei Montalva appointed him Minister of Defense. During his tenure he faced the crisis of the Tacnazo, which ultimately led to his departure from government.La Segunda (Santiago), 10 September 1990, Special Editions.
Later in 1988, he gained public attention when he publicly supported the “No” option in the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite, which led to the end of the rule of General Augusto Pinochet.El Mercurio (Santiago), 9 July 1988, p. C3.
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