Carlos Aníbal Larraín Peña is a

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an lawyer and politician. He represented Los Ríos in the Senate and was the president of National Renewal (Renovación Nacional).Renovación Nacional leadership
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Biography

Carlos Larraín Peña received an LL.B. from the

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in 1967, and an M.A. from the

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in 1968.Law firm biography
In 1994, he started Larrain y Asociados Ltda., a

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. In 1996, he was elected as a councilor in

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, and re-elected in 2000, 2004, and 2008. He now serves as the President of National Renewal. He is a member of the Larraín family. He is married to Victoria Hurtado and has twelve children. He declares to be a devout

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and member of the

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. His son, Martín Larraín, ran over a man in his jeep and killed him, in September 2013 on a highway. After a 1st and 2nd judiciary process his son was acquitted of driving under the influence of alcohol. The final proves where that he phoned for emergency services for 50 minutes, then fled the scene, leaving two friends to account for what had happened. No immediate blood test was performed, hence no blood alcohol level was established. The two former friends were later charged with obstruction of justice. The case was largely public in social networks and media and inspired the 2016 film ''

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Official blog

Genealogy of the Larraín family in Chile
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(in Spanish) 1942 births Living people Chilean Roman Catholics Chilean people of Basque descent National Party (Chile, 1966) politicians National Renewal (Chile) politicians Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Catholic University of Leuven alumni 20th-century Chilean lawyers 21st-century Chilean lawyers Senators of the LIII Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile Chilean anti-communists Carlos Municipal councillors of Las Condes Mayors of Las Condes {{Chile-Senator-stub