Former president of the Chamber of Deputies and president of a Santiago finance firm and of a renown law firm in Santiago, Dr. Edilio Vargas Ortega committed suicide last Friday in Santiago. Vargas Ortega, deputy for the Partido Reformista Social Cristiano in 19986-1990 had also been a former administrator of Molinos Dominicanos, the state flour mill. Vargas had dressed elegantly, and then shot himself in his forehead near his home. He was known as a very religious and psychologically-rigid man. In Santiago, it was said he shot himself for a personal problem affecting a family member.
