Jorge Arrate
| Jorge Arrate Mac Niven | |
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Jorge Arrate in 2009.
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| Ministry of Mining | |
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In office June 17, 1972 – July 10, 1972 |
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| President | Salvador Allende |
| Preceded by | Pedro Palacios Cameron |
| Succeeded by | Alfonso David Lebón |
| Ministry General Secretariat of Government | |
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In office August 1, 1998 – June 2, 1999 |
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| President | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Preceded by | José Joaquín Brunner Ried |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Mladinic Alonso |
| Ministry of Labor and Social Forecast | |
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In office March 11, 1994 – August 1, 1998 |
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| President | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Preceded by | René Cortázar Sanz |
| Succeeded by | Germán Molina Valdivieso |
| Ministry of Education of Chile | |
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In office Septiember 28, 1992 – March 11, 1994 |
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| President | Patricio Aylwin Azócar |
| Preceded by | Ricardo Lagos Escobar |
| Succeeded by | Ernesto Schiefelbein Fuenzalida |
| Personal details | |
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May 1, 1941 Santiago, Chile |
| Political party |
Movimiento Amplio de Izquierda (2011) Partido Comunista (2009-2010) Partido Socialista (1963-2009) |
| Spouse(s) | Diamela Eltit |
| Children | Alejandro Isabel |
| Website | Jorge Arrate |
Jorge Félix Arrate Mac Niven (Santiago, May 1, 1941) is a Chilean lawyer, economist, writer and politician . He was Ministry of State for the presidents Salvador Allende, Patricio Aylwin and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.
In 2009 he was appointed as candidate for president of Chile in representation of the political aliance Juntos Podemos Más and other leftist political movements, obtaining 6.21% of the total votes in the elections of that year.
The son of a former navy officer, and municipal employee Juan Gabriel Arrate Ducoing and Aileen Mac Niven Seymour, he spent his early years in the Santiago neighborhood of Plaza Brasil, in the house where their fathers lived for many years. Then he lived in Viña del Mar (1945-1953) and later in Puente Alto (until 1965).
He attended basic education in schools Saint Paul and The Mackay School of Viña del Mar. His secondary studies were made at the Instituto Nacional of Santiago de Chile.
He entered law school at the University of Chile in 1958, graduating in 1964. The following year he began postgraduate studies in Economic Development at the School of Latin American Economic Studies of the University of Chile. Between 1967 and 1969, he received a scholarship in the United States to pursue a PhD in economics at Harvard. He obtained the degree of Master of Arts in Economics. He returned home to the Institute of Economics of the University of Chile to write his doctoral thesis, which never ended.
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