Luis Maira

Luis Osvaldo Maira Aguirre (born 9 August 1940) is a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as deputy –during the Popular Unity– and as minister of State under Eduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle's government. Similarly, he served as ambassador in Mexico and Argentina.

In the 1965 Chilean parliamentary election, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for Santiago's First District (Seventh Departmental Constituency), serving during the 1965–1969 legislative term.

Biography Family and education He was born in Santiago on 9 August 1940, the eldest of three children of Luis Maira Orrego, a civil engineer and employee of the Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE), and María Aguirre Aguirre, a homemaker. with whom he had two daughters. He then enrolled at the University of Chile Faculty of Law, where he earned his law degree with a thesis entitled The Road to the Nationalization of Copper: Negotiations Between the Chilean State and the Anaconda Company. and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. during the period in which the federation was led by Christian Democrats (1957–1969). During the same period, he also served as the student representative on the University's Superior Council.

As a student leader, he attended several international conferences, including the University Social Action Seminar in 1962 and the World Congress on University Reform in 1964.