Jorge Máximo Arturo Pacheco Matte (born 12 February 1953) is a Chilean

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and

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. He served as minister of energy in

Michelle Bachelet Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December ...

's second government (2014−2018).

Early life

Born in the capital city

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, Pacheco is the son of

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politician

Máximo Pacheco Gómez Máximo Pacheco Gómez (26 October 1924 − 5 May 2012) was a Chilean politician and lawyer. He served as a senator, minister of education, and ambassador to both the Soviet Union and the Vatican, and was a judge on the Inter-American Court of H ...

. He attended Saint George's College, located in

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, Santiago. He studied at the

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, earning a

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. He finished in 1976 with the specialty of

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. He continued there and completed an

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with a mention in economics. He married designer Soledad Flanagan, with whom he fathered four daughters.

Career

At university Pacheco was a member of the

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(MAPU), a

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political movement ally of socialist

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from 1970 to 1973. After the 1973 coup d'état and the

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, he joined the

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. In the late 1990s and 2000s, he was a close collaborator of the presidential campaigns of

Ricardo Lagos Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military di ...

(1999−00), and

(2005−06). Both candidates were ultimately elected to the presidency; during their governments, however, Pacheco worked for

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(2000−2012). Pacheco returned to

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in 2013 after leaving the business world. He helped Bachelet in her campaign for the

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s. Once re-elected, she appointed him as minister of energy in January; he took office on 11 March 2014. On 19 October 2016, Pacheco resigned from the ministry to become the generalissimo of Lagos's presidential pre-candidacy for the 2017 general election.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pacheco, Máximo 1953 births Codelco people Living people University of Chile alumni 20th-century Chilean politicians 21st-century Chilean politicians Socialist Party of Chile politicians

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