Raúl Rettig Guissen (16 May 1909, in

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– 30 April 2000, in

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), was a

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an politician and lawyer. A member of the Radical Party, between 1938 and 1940 he served as undersecretary of the interior and, later, at the foreign affairs ministry. He was elected to the Senate in 1949. During the Unidad Popular government of

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, he served as ambassador to

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until the coup d'état of 11 September 1973. During the early days of the government of

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, he was appointed to chair the

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, a

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committed under the military dictatorship of

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. The commission's final report, known as the

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, was published on 9 February 1991.

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