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- ↑ "Certificado de Defunción para Asignación Familiar — Zoila Margarita González Gaete" (in Spanish). Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación de Chile. 30 May 2013. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
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- ↑ Saldías, Washington (20 September 2007). ""Tenemos que ponerle el hombro para que esta comuna salga adelante", expresó alcalde subrogante Gustavo Parraguez". Pichilemu News (in Spanish). Pichilemu. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
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- ↑ Saldías, Washington (30 October 2007). "Concejales de la Concertación no quieren elegir alcalde titular". Pichilemu News (in Spanish). Pichilemu. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
- ↑ Saldías, Washington (23 November 2007). "Alcalde suplente "habemus" tras una serie de reuniones abortadas". Pichilemu News (in Spanish). Pichilemu. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
- ↑ Saldías, Washington (6 December 2008). "Con alcalde subrogante asumieron nuevas autoridades comunales por el período 2008–2012". Pichilemu News (in Spanish). Pichilemu, Chile. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ↑ Saldías, Washington (12 December 2008). "Pichilemu tiene un nuevo alcalde en la persona de Roberto Córdova Carreño". Pichilemu News (in Spanish). Pichilemu, Chile. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
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es uno de los funcionarios con la mayor antigüedad en la municipalidad local con 44 años en el municipio. [...] ha conducido la municipalidad con especial celo, pues conoce a la perfección los diferentes procedimientos administrativos por sus años de experiencia y la capacitación que ha tenido, siendo una garantía para el cargo.
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| Preceded by René Maturana Maldonado Víctor Rojas González Hernán Garrido Salas | Mayor of Pichilemu (interim) 1992 2007 2008 | Succeeded by Orlando Cornejo Bustamante Marcelo Cabrera Martínez Roberto Córdova Carreño |
