Julio Canessa

Lieutenant General Julio Canessa Roberts (19 March 1925 – 24 January 2015) was a Chilean military and political figure.

He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, representing the Army.

General Canessa was Army Vice Commander-in-chief from 1983 to 1985 and a member of the Government Junta from 1985 to 1986.

As a Senator he opposed the Concert of Parties for Democracy on the Indigenous law, seeing it as bad for development,[2] and in 2001 he defended landmines as necessary.

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