Hermógenes Pérez de Arce Ibieta (born 10 January 1936) is a
Chilean lawyer
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and
politician
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who served as
deputy
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during
Salvador Allende's government. In his country, he is commonly known for being a fierce supporter of
Augusto Pinochet's
dictatorship
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.
More precisely, he is known for being a leading
denialist
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of the
human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile
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.
[
For long time Hermógenes Pérez de Arce was a regular columnist in '']El Mercurio
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''.[
He is also a writer and has written several books.
In 2003 he was homaged in Casa Piedra by hard-line Pinochetists for "rescuing the historical truth of Chile".]Tonka Tomicic
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Best known for televisions shows on TVN and Canal 13 as Buenos Dias A Todos, Viña's International Festiv ...
for his repeated denialist comments.[ Subsequently, Senator ]Alejandro Navarro
Alejandro Navarro Brain (born 20 November 1958) is a Chilean politician who has served as a member of Parliament for the Bío-Bío Region since 1994. First as Deputy and since 2006 as Senator, in 2009 founded the Broad Social Movement (MAS i ...
proposed a Chilean law against denialism dubbed "Ley Hermógenes".
See also
* Sergio Diez
Sergio Eduardo Diez Urzúa (2 April 1925 – 29 June 2015) was a Chilean people, Chilean architect and politician.
He is commonly remembered for having denied that Forced disappearance, arrested people disappeared during Pinochet dictatorship ( ...
, another denialist of human rights violations of the Pinochet regime
References
External links
BCN Profile
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1936 births
People from Santiago
Living people
National Party (Chile, 1966) politicians
University of Chile alumni
20th-century Chilean politicians
21st-century Chilean politicians
Chilean anti-communists