Raúl Rettig Guissen (16 May 1909, in

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– 30 April 2000, in

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), was a Chilean 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

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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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set up to examine

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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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