Fernando Guarello Fitz-Henry (ValparaÃÂso, 29 July 1906 â Santiago, 19 June 1971) was a Chilean lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for the 1937âÂÂ1941 legislative period.
In 2024, his past membership in the National Socialist Movement of Chile (MNSCh) became the subject of public debate following a political decision by his great-granddaughter, Antonia Orellana, to dismiss a government official whose father had served as a physician at the Estadio Nacional detention center in September 1973.
He was the son of lawyer and politician ÃÂngel Guarello Costa and Mary Fitz-Henry MacDonell. He completed his secondary education at the Liceo Eduardo de la Barra in ValparaÃÂso and at the local seminary.
He later enrolled in the Fiscal Law Course of ValparaÃÂso and was admitted to the bar on 27 May 1930.
On 10 May 1935, he married Alicia Zegers de la Fuente. The couple had four children. One of them was Fernando Guarello Zegers, a conservative lawyer who defended victims of human rights violations under the Pinochet regime, and who was the father of sports journalist Juan Cristóbal Guarello. One of his daughters, Ana MarÃÂa Margarita Guarello, was a teacher and the mother of Chilean minister Antonia Orellana.
Guarello practiced law in ValparaÃÂso and Santiago. Together with his brother Jorge Guarello Fitz-Henry, he continued the law firm founded by their father in ValparaÃÂso, one of the oldest legal practices in the city. He served as legal counsel to the National Customs Service, as Secretary General of Customs, and worked within its governing board.
In 1946, he represented the Chilean Commercial Union before the Argentine government in negotiations for the purchase of oilseed materials.
He was a member of the National Socialist Movement of Chile and later of the Democratic Party, of which his father was a founding member. He was elected deputy for the 6th Departmental Grouping of ValparaÃÂso and Quillota for the 1937âÂÂ1941 term, serving on the Permanent Committee on National Defense.
In 1952, he acted as Secretary General of the First Maritime Conference for the Conservation of the Maritime Wealth of the South Pacific, involving Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. He later participated in the First United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, held in Geneva in 1958.
He was a member of the Club de Viña del Mar, the Automobile Club, the ValparaÃÂso Motorists Association, Santiago Wanderers, the Paperchase Club, and the Granadilla Golf Club.