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Biographical Profile of Jorge van Schouwen

Name: Jorge van Schouwen

Date and place of birth: Concepcion, Chile, 1954

Nicknames: The Walking, Talking Erection

Prototype: Minister Responsible for the Status of Women.

Quote: "Don't tell my wife."

Background: From mixed Dutch and Spanish heritage in a well-to-do family in Southern Chile.

Family: Married the former Miss Nancy Hodgson. Two daughters.

Occupation: Last known to be a government worker.

Bad qualities:

  • Jorge's worst quality is that he is a senior cult member and Support sector.
  • Like a Canadian version of Don Juan, Jorge is a charming and kind man with a good sense of humour who uses his personality to exploit women for sex.
  • Poor judgment in his choice of friends and associates.
  • Associates with Enrique de la Barrera.
  • Philanderer whose extra-marital affairs make his wife look like a visitor in her own bed.

Bad trips:

  • The time his brother was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Chilean military dictatorship.
  • The time Jorge himself was detained and tortured by the Chilean military dictatorship first in the backroom of a bakery, then in a hardware store.
  • All the times he failed to help fellow Siloists who were suicidal, depressed, lonely or self-destructive in his own council, even when he was Support.

Sexual partners/victims:

  • At an international level, women in the Movement keep lists of men like Jorge.

Movement experience:

Recruited: In Chile circa 1969, probably by his brother.

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