Rodrigo Eduardo Alexis Mundaca Cabrera (born 13 May 1961) is a Chilean politician, agricultural engineer and environmental activist. He is the Governor of the Valparaíso Region since July 14, 2021. Mundaca has been director and spokesperson of the environmental organization

Modatima Modatima, the “Movement for the Defense of Access to Water, Land and Environmental Protection”, is an organization formed in Chile out of the Province of Petorca Province, Petorca. The organization was created in 2010 as a response to increased ...

. In 2017 he and his partner

Verónica Vilches Verónica del Carmen Vilches Olivares (born July 30, 1970) is a Chilean environmental activist focused on issues of water access in the Chilean Province of Petorca, in the Valparaíso Region. Currently, she works as President of a drinking water ...

claim to have received

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s for their activism against unfair water extraction by landowners. In 2019 he won the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award.

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Living people 1961 births Chilean environmentalists Governors of Valparaíso Region 21st-century Chilean politicians {{environmentalist-stub