Edmundo Pérez Yoma

Edmundo Jaime Pérez Yoma (born 10 January 1939 Antofagasta) is a Chilean politician from the Christian Democrat Party of Chile. He was twice the Minister of Defense during the administration of President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, and he served as the Minister of the Interior for President Michelle Bachelet's administration.

Edmundo Jaime Pérez Yoma
Minister of the Interior
In office
8 March 2008  11 March 2010
Appointed byMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byFelipe Harboe Bascuñán (interim)
Succeeded byRodrigo Hinzpeter
Minister of National Defense
In office
22 June 1999  11 March 2000
Appointed byEduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Preceded byJosé Florencio Guzmán Correa
Succeeded byMario Fernández Baeza
In office
11 March 1994  16 January 1998
Appointed byEduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Preceded byPatricio Rojas
Succeeded byRaúl Troncoso Castillo
Personal details
Born (1939-01-10) 10 January 1939
Antofagasta, Chile
Political partyChristian Democrat
SpousePaz Vergara Larraín
ChildrenSix
ResidenceSantiago
Alma materUniversity of Washington

Pérez Yoma is the son of Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, the assassinated minister under President Eduardo Frei Montalva, father of President Frei Ruiz-Tagle. As a boy, he came to Santiago, the capital, with his family, enrolling in Saint George's College and then the University of Chile, where for two years he studied engineering. Later, he moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. Pérez Yoma then returned to Chile, marrying Paz Vergara Larraín in 1965, with whom he has had six children.

In the following years, while working in business, Pérez Yoma was critical of Popular Unity, the coalition of parties that brought the socialist Salvador Allende to power in 1970. In 1988, he served as national advisor for the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and in 1989, he managed the senatorial campaign of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. In 1991, he was named president of the Defense Commission of his party. In the 1990s, he was president on the board of Petrox and Chilectra Metropolitana, oil and electricity companies, respectively. In 1993, he was executive secretary of Frei's presidential campaign.

In the 2010s Pérez Yoma was fined for theft of water in Petorca.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.