Osvaldo Puccio

Osvaldo Carlos Puccio Huidobro (born 21 December 1952) is a Chilean politician who served as minister.

Family and education His father was Luis Osvaldo Puccio, personal secretary to Salvador Allende, and his mother was Myriam Huidobro Reichhardt. He completed his primary education at the Escuela República Argentina, Santiago.

He attended the Instituto Nacional in Santiago, where he became a student leader and served as president of the student council in 1969. He studied law at the University of Chile for three years.

Political career Early career and exile He was a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) between 1970 and 1973.

On 10 September 1974, he went into exile in Romania and later moved to East Germany, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy from Humboldt University of Berlin.

President Michelle Bachelet appointed him ambassador to Spain in 2006. He resigned in September 2008 for personal reasons and to pursue activities in the private sector. The following month, he became advisory director for Latin America at the Spanish construction group Acciona.