Edmundo Pérez Yoma
| Edmundo Jaime Pérez Yoma | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 8 March 2008 – 11 March 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Michelle Bachelet |
| Preceded by | Felipe Harboe Bascuñán (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Rodrigo Hinzpeter |
| Minister of National Defense | |
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In office 22 June 1999 – 11 March 2000 |
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| Appointed by | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Preceded by | José Florencio Guzmán Correa |
| Succeeded by | Mario Fernández Baeza |
| Minister of National Defense | |
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In office 11 March 1994 – 16 January 1998 |
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| Appointed by | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Preceded by | Patricio Rojas Saavedra |
| Succeeded by | Raúl Troncoso Castillo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 January 1939  Antofagasta, Chile
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| Political party |
 Christian Democrat
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| Spouse(s) | Paz Vergara Larraín |
| Children | Six |
| Residence | Santiago |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
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.
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.
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