Jaime Guzmán

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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 was assassinated in 1991 by members of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, a left-wing paramilitary organization.

Jaime Guzmán had been one of the most public enemies of president Salvador Allende (1970-1973). Guzmán was an extreme right-winger that refused to recognize the legitimacy and constitutionality of the democratically elected Popular Unity government in 1970. Guzmán was central in creating the political climate among right-wing parties to support a violent overthrow of Salvador Allende. Many of the views Guzmán professed and publicly pronounced on newspapers and television on the non-constitutionality of the socialist government of Allende was shared by the fascist Patria y Libertad(Homeland and Freedom Party).

After the military coup led by General Pinochet, in which president Salvador Allende lost his life along with countless of others, Guzmán became a close advisor to Pinochet and a highly influential policy maker in Chile, including being summoned by Pinochet to write a new constitution.