Jaime Guzmán

Jaime Guzmán

Jaime Jorge Guzmán Errázuriz (June 28, 1946 - April 1, 1991) was a Chilean lawyer and senator, member and ideological founder of the right-wing Independent Democrat Union party. He opposed President Salvador Allende and later became a close advisor to General Augusto Pinochet. A professor of Constitutional Law, he took an important part in the drafting of the 1980 Constitution. He was assassinated in 1991 by members of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, a left-wing paramilitary organization, during the transition to democracy.

Under Allende's government

Jaime Guzmán was a professor of Constitutional Law and a right-wing politician that refused to recognize the legitimacy and constitutionality of the democratically elected Popular Unity government in 1970, and was the most prominent ideological opponent of president Salvador Allende.

Guzmán was central in creating the ideological and legal basis to support the overthrow of Salvador Allende. He publicly professed and defended on newspapers and television the view of the non-constitutionality of the socialist government of Allende.

After the 1973 coup

After the military coup, Guzmán became a close advisor to Pinochet and a highly influential policy maker in Chile, including being summoned by Pinochet to take part in the Comisión Ortúzar charged with drafting a new constitution. He also had a key participation in the drafting of the Pinochet's Chacarillas speech of 1978, one of the founding text of the military regime [ [http://www.bicentenariochile.cl/doctos/Chacarillas77.pdf Discurso de Chacarillas (1978)] ] .

Enjoying close contacts with Jorge Alessandri, he converted himself to the neoliberal economic policies supported by the Chicago Boys and eventually distanced himself from Alessandri, while getting closer to Pinochet and to his minister Sergio Fernández.

After having participated to the drafting of the 1980 Constitution, Guzmán distanced himself from active participation in the government and returned to his original political activities. He thus created in 1983 the "Unión Demócrata Independiente" from the movement started in the Catholic University of Chile.

During the democratic transition

Following the progressive return to democracy, Jaime Guzmán presented himself as candidate in the legislative elections. Despite reaching only the third place, behind important figures of the "Concertación", Andrés Zaldívar and Ricardo Lagos, he was still elected due to the binomial electoral system. He posited himself as the leader of the opposition to the centre-left "Concertación" government leading the democratic transition.

Jaime Guzmán maintained until his death his functions as professor of constitutional law in the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Chile. He had a vast knowledge of Scholasticism, and shared views with the German jurist Carl Schmitt, a harsh critic of liberalism [Cristi, Renato, "El Pensamiento Político de Jaime Guzmán", LOM, Santiago de Chile, 2000] .

References

ee also

*History of Chile
*Independent Democrat Union
*Errazuriz family


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