
Jaime Jorge Guzman Errazuriz (28 June 1946-1 April 1991) was a Chilean politician who served as Senator for Santiago Poniente from 11 March 1990 to 1 April 1991, preceding Miguel Otero Lathrop. Guzman was the founder of the conservative Independent Democratic Union and was a close adviser to Augusto Pinochet, and he was assassinated by the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front in 1991.
Biography[]
Jaime Jorge Guzman Errazuriz was born in Santiago, Chile on 28 June 1946, and he graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1968 with highest honors. Guzman founded the conservative University Gremial Movement, which quickly expanded through the main universities of Chile. After the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, Guzman became a close adviser to military dictator Augusto Pinochet, and he later adopted neoliberal views. In 1990, he was elected a Senator from his Independent Democratic Union party (which he had founded), representing Santiago Poniente. On 1 April 1991, he was shot at the exit of the Catholic University (where he taught constitutional law) by members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, and he died of his wounds.