Jaime Ravinet

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Jaime Ravinet

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Profession	Lawyer

Jaime Ravinet de la Fuente (born October 17, 1946 in Santiago, Chile, is a Chilean politician, lawyer, academic and businessman. From 1990 to 2000 he was Mayor of Santiago, before becoming the Minister for Housing, Urban Planning and National Property in 2001, a position he held until 2004. He then became the Minister for Defence until 11 March 2006. In February 2010 he was re-appointed as Minister of Defence by president-elect Sebastián Piñera^[1] but Ravinet resigned on January 13, 2011 after suggesting that the Chilean armed forces might be reluctant to help during humanitarian crises if that forced them to provide information about their expenses.^[2]

He was born into an upper-middle-class family, the eldest son of engineer Alfredo Garcia and Alicia Ravinet de la Fuente Larenas, who was Garcia's second wife. He was educated at Santiago College, San Ignacio College and finally the University of Chile, where he studied law. He married political scientist Ximena Lyon Parot in January 1974, and has three children - Raul, Ximena and Macarena.

References

↑ "Designación de Ravinet en Defensa centró el anuncio del gabinete de Piñera" (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 10/02/2010. Retrieved 21 December 2011. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ "Chile's Pinera reshuffles cabinet, keeps Larrain". Reuters. 2011-01-14. Retrieved 21 December 2011.

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Name	Ravinet, Jaime
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Short description	Chilean politician
Date of birth	1946
Place of birth	Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
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