Teresa Marinovic

Teresa Margarita Natalia Marinovic Vial (born 3 February 1973) is a Chilean, columnist and politician of conservative-libertarian ideology who serves as member of the Constitutional Convention.

She received a degree in philosophy at the University of The Andes, where for ten years she worked as teacher in courses of philosophycal anthropology, theory of truth and theology.

She has also worked as a columnist for the Chilean newspapers El Mostrador and Las Últimas Noticias, as well as in the multimedia area with Radio Bío-Bío.

[4] She has stated that she supported Augusto Pinochet regime and still defends its political work despite what she calls its "non-systematic"[b] human right violations.

Nevertheless, that day was marked by riots outside the Pereira Palace, groups she harshly criticized[12] and about –recording in live by Instagram through her cellphone– she had a tense debate with future president of the Convention Elisa Loncón,[13] who told Marinovic "why did you come here to provoke?".

[16][17] Then, in the tense ninth session of 20 July (due to the issue of human rights), she directly criticized to Linconao for speaking in Mapudungun and not in Spanish.

[27] Two days after the controversy with Linconao, the centre-right constituent Hernán Larraín Matte (Evópoli) stated that: "I told Teresa Marinovic that I did not agree with the provocation she made".