Luis Deines Pérez (born March 29, 1973) is a retired male boxer from

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, who won the silver medal in the men's light-welterweight (– 63.5 kg) category at the

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. In the final he was defeated by Argentina's Walter Crucce. Pérez represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

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, falling in the first round to Poland's Jacek Bielski.

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