Cristián Alejandro Contreras Radovic (born 21 December 1969), popularly known as Dr. File, is a

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an journalist, writer, and philosopher known for spreading

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and

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s in the Chilean media. He is the current leader of the political party

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, and was also a candidate for becoming a Senator of the

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of Chile.

Biography

He was born in

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and has a sister, Ángela Contreras Radovic, who is an actress and a fellow supporter of the United Center party. His grandfather, Gracija Radović Ercegović (1913-1995) immigrated from

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in 1926, when he was only 13 years old. He studied journalism at the

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and philosophy at the

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between 1988 and 1999. In the 1990s he carried started out his professional practice as a journalist on the Chilean television channel La Red and worked as a correspondent for the US network

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. During 2018, he also worked at the television channel

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. Between 2020 and 2021, he worked on creating the party

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, which he leads, and he manifested intentions of becoming a candidate for the 2021 Chilean presidential elections, although he later decided on becoming a candidate to become a senator for the

instead. He is married to Heidi Schulz and has one daughter and two sons.

Views

Cristián Contreras Radovic has often been the subject of controversy, as he has refused to wear

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s during the

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, and believes in the popularly-dubbed "plandemic" conspiracy theory, which consists of the idea that the pandemic was artificially created. He is also against the

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that the

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causes AIDS, instead claiming that it is caused by HIV-treatment drugs. He is a self-declared

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, claiming that "we have to hit the left and the right with a stick" and that "

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and

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have been corrupted by power and driven Chile towards the path of resentment, inequality, and a wide array of vices arising from the darkest forms of matter".

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