John Cobin

John Macarewich Cobin (born 10 March 1963) is a U.S.-born blogger, convicted criminal, and social commentator. He renounced his US citizenship in December 2015 and holds Italian and Chilean citizenship. being released in 2025.

Biography John Cobin was born to Joan Audrey Cobin née Tagliere (born 1929), a nurse from New York, and George Cobin (1939-1966), a mathematician from Santa Monica, California. His father died from cancer in April 1966.

He studied at various educational institutions including Reformed Bible College, California State University, the University of California, and George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy, an M.A. in economics, and an A.R.E. in liberal arts and religious studies.

He left the U.S. to live in Chile first in 1996, The following year, he became a part-time economics lecturer. He denied all accusations, but was arrested on charges of domestic violence yet release the next day. He fled the country shortly thereafter. He subsequently objected to paying either of his former wives child support, and is now estranged from many of his children.left John Cobin with his third wife, Pamela Sepúlveda. In 2012, along with three other Americans, he had the idea of creating a libertarian compound in the Chilean mountainside, titled "Galt’s Gulch", but was excluded by the other two partners, named in honor of the fictional capitalist society represented in Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged.

Until 2015, he was an economics teacher at the Andrés Bello National University. He renounced his US citizenship in December 2015. After this, he recorded a YouTube video, confessing to the crime and claiming that he acted in "self-defense". Due to this, he was convicted of attempted homicide and committing an unjustifiable shooting on public roads. He was sentenced to 11 years of jail time,

In 2020, Publimetro reported that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

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