Jaime_Ravinet

Jaime Ravinet

Jaime Ravinet

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Jaime Nicolás Ravinet de la Fuente (born 17 October 1946), 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]

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He was born into a middle-class family, the eldest son of engineer Alfredo Ravinet and Alicia de la Fuente Larenas, who was Ravinet'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.

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    "Designación de Ravinet en Defensa centró el anuncio del gabinete de Piñera" (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 10 February 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
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    "Chile's Pinera reshuffles cabinet, keeps Larrain". Reuters. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2011.

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