Alberto Miguel Espina Otero (born 4 December 1956) is a
Chilean lawyer
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and
politician
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.
He was
Minister of Defense
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in the second government of the
President
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Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique OMCh (; born 1 December 1949) is a Chilean billionaire businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022.
The son of a Christian Democratic polit ...
(2018–2022).
Biography
He is the son of Alberto Espina Barros and MarÃa Eliana Otero Lathrop (now deceased). Also Espina has three brothers: a doctor, another Minister of the Court of Appeals and another sister. Likewise, he is the nephew of
Miguel Otero Lathrop, senator of
Renovación Nacional ―RN; same party of Espina― for the 1990–1998 period.
He attended at
The Grange School graduating from there in 1974. Then, he entered to
Universidad de Chile
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School of Law
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, being received with a degree in legal and social sciences in 1979. During his spell at the School of Law he was assistant of the Constitutional and Procedural Law departments as well as he was assistant professor of Procedural Law. Once received, Espina was professor of Criminal Law and Police Procedure at the
Escuela de Carabineros de Chile.
Political career
He began his political activities as president of the Grange school student center, where he was student leader within the opposition to the
Popular Unity (UP) government (1970–1973).
In 1983, he was founding member of
Movimiento de Unión Nacional (MUN), movement which signed the
National Agreement for the Transition to Full Democracy. In 1987, his movement merged into the RN party, organization where Espina was founder, regional president of the (
Metropolitan Region
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), political commission member, Vice-president and national president.
In 1989, he was elected deputy (1990–1994) for the communes of
Ñuñoa
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and
Providencia, being reelected with the first majority in 1993 and 1997 for the periods 1994–1998 and 1998–2002. In 1999, he was a member of the Central Command of the Presidential Candidacy of
JoaquÃn LavÃn
JoaquÃn José LavÃn Infante (born 23 October 1953) is a Chilean politician of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and former mayor of Las Condes, in the northeastern zone of Santiago. Formerly LavÃn has also been mayor of Santiago ...
(
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) during
1999–00 presidential election.
In 2001, he was elected
Senator
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for the period 2002–2010. In 2005, he was the political head of the Presidential Candidacy of his partymate
Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique OMCh (; born 1 December 1949) is a Chilean billionaire businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022.
The son of a Christian Democratic polit ...
, who now faced LavÃn. In 2009, he was reelected senator for the period 2010–2018.
On 6 November 2020, it was reported by
El LÃbero
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that Espina was appointed by Piñera as counsellor of
State of Chile's Defense Council.
References
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1956 births
Politicians from Santiago
Living people
National Renewal (Chile) politicians
Movimiento de Unión Nacional politicians
University of Chile alumni
20th-century Chilean politicians
21st-century Chilean politicians
Chilean Ministers of Defense