Ramón Pérez Opazo

Ramón Segundo Pérez Opazo (3 December 1933–21 June 2005) was a Chilean politician who served as deputy from 1990 to 2005.

Biography He was born in Iquique, Chile, on 3 December 1933. He married Gladys Díaz Jofré and had six children. He completed his primary education at Escuela No. 4 in Iquique and his secondary studies at the Instituto Comercial of the same city.

Opazo later entered the Institute of Political and Administrative Sciences of the University of Chile, where he obtained the qualification of fingerprint expert (Perito Dactiloscópico) and civil officer.

In 1954 he joined the Civil Registry and Identification Service. The following year he was appointed fingerprint expert of the Court of Appeals of Iquique.

Political career In 1956 he began his political and trade union career as president of the National Association of Civil Registry and Identification Employees. In 1968 he was elected vice-president of the First Convention of Civil Registry Personnel (ARCICH) and was a founding member of the Association of Small Industrialists and Artisans of Iquique (AGPIA), serving as its president until 1970.

He was one of the promoters of Law No. 17,314, which created the Investment Programming Committee of Iquique and Pisagua. Between 1970 and 1974 he served as a national leader of the National United Trade Confederation of Medium, Small and Micro-Industry, Services and Artisans of Chile (CONUPIA), contributing to the creation of a savings and credit cooperative. He later joined the organizing commission of the Iquique Free Trade Zone (ZOFRI) and in 1985 promoted the First International Fair of Iquique.

In the 1989 parliamentary elections he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for District No. 2 (Tarapacá Region) as an independent candidate within the “Democracia y Progreso” pact, serving from 1990 to 1994. He was re-elected in 1993 but lost his seat in 1997.

He joined National Renewal on 27 October 1991. In the December 2001 elections he was again elected deputy for District No. 2 as an independent candidate aligned with the Independent Democratic Union within the Alliance for Chile pact, serving for the 2002–2006 term.

He died in Viña del Mar on 12 June 2005 and was buried in Iquique.