Armando Uribe Arce (October 28, 1933 – January 22, 2020) was a

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an writer, poet, lawyer, and diplomat.

Biography

Uribe was born in

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. He was educated at the Saint George's College. He later studied law in the

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and received his law degree in 1959, where he served as a law professor for over 30 years. In addition, Uribe held various positions in law at the

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, Michigan State University,

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, and

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. He published numerous works on politics, religion, criminal law, and mining, and was a member of the Chilean Academy of Language and the Royal Spanish Academy. Uribe served a tenure as a diplomat between 1967 and 1973, being assigned to

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in 1968, and later the Chilean embassy in the

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between 1968 and 1970. In 1971, he became Chile's ambassador to the

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under the

Salvador Allende Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fir ...

government until the

1973 Chilean coup d'état The 1973 Chilean coup d'état Enciclopedia Virtual > Historia > Historia de Chile > Del gobierno militar a la democracia" on LaTercera.cl. Retrieved 22 September 2006. In October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the par ...

. Due to the recognition of the new

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regime by the Chinese government, Uribe denounced the junta, after which he was dismissed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As a result, he went into exile with his family in France, not returning to Chile until 1990. Uribe won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2004.

References

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