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María Loreto Silva Rojas (born 29 June 1964) was a
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an deputy minister under President
Sebastián Piñera Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (; 1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as President of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic Party (C ...
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Life

Silva was born in
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and attended the
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. She was a lawyer, academic and consultant with experience in the trade union sector. She was a Deputy Minister of Public Works in the government of President Sebastián Piñera from 2010 to 2012. In 2012 she was promoted to be the minister. Silva became the President of the directors of the national petroleum company Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) in March 2018. In addition she was a director of the law firm ''Bofill Escobar Silva Abogados'' and in 2019 she was appointed to the Barrick Gold Corporation. In June 2020 she was obliged to resign from her position with ENAP. The comptroller had investigated and found that her role with ENAP created a conflict of interest with her role as a director of ''Bofill Escobar Silva Abogados''. Silva sent in her resignation after the findings and after consulting the Chilean President Sebastian Piñera


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