Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
Jaime Jorge Guzmán Errázuriz (June 28, 1946 – April 1, 1991) was a Chilean lawyer and senator, speechwriter and member and doctrinal founder of the conservative Independent Democrat Union party. In the 1960s he opposed the University Reform and became the main ideologist of the gremialismo school of thought. He opposed President Salvador Allende and later became a close advisor of Pinochet and his dictatorship. A professor of Constitutional Law, he played an important part in the drafting of the 1980 Chilean Constitution. He was assassinated in 1991, after the transition to democracy, by members of the communist urban guerrilla Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front.
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