Mauricio José Rojas Mullor (born June 28, 1950) is a Chilean-Swedish

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and political economist,

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of the

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between 2002 and 2006. He served as Minister of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile for four days, since August 10 2018 until August 13, under the presidency of Sebastián Piñera. Mauricio Rojas was born in

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, Chile. As an active

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and member of MIR in his youth, he fled to Sweden in 1974 following the military coup and the subsequent persecution of leftist activists by the new Pinochet regime. After coming to Sweden as a refugee he changed his political views and became a proponent for

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. Rojas received a

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from

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in 2002 for the Liberal Party, although he was not a party member at the time. He became a member of the Liberal People's Party in 2004 when he was appointed as the party's spokesperson on

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and

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. In 2006 he initiated a second period in Parliament. He is member of the Constitutional Committee of the Swedish Parliament. He has written several books in the field of international economics, immigration matters and on the Swedish model, many of them translated into several languages. Available in English are ''The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model'' (London, 1998), ''Millennium Doom'' (London, 1999), ''Beyond the Welfare State'' (Stockholm, 2001) and ''The Sorrows of Carmencita: Argentina’s Crisis in a Historical Perspective'' (Stockholm, 2002). His latest published book is ''Reinventar el Estado del bienestar'' (Madrid, 2008).

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Riksdagen: Mauricio Rojas (fp)Mauricio Rojas - Folkpartiet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rojas, Mauricio 1950 births Chilean emigrants to Sweden Chilean former marxists Culture ministers of Chile Government ministers of Chile Living people Lund University faculty Members of the Riksdag 2002–2006 Members of the Riksdag 2006–2010 Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026 Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden) People from Santiago Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) politicians Swedish politicians of Chilean descent