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Luis Zamora (born 17 February 1948) is an Argentinian lawyer and politician. He is the leader of the
Self-determination and Freedom Self-determination and Freedom (, AyL) is a leftist political party in Argentina, with Luis Zamora as its most prominent member. Many of its leading members were part of the Trotskyist Movement for Socialism ( or MAS) active in the 1980s and ...
party and served as National Deputy between 1989 and 1993 and again in 2001 and 2005. He has unsuccessfully ran for
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on three occasions: in
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, in
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and in
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. He graduated in Law from the
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. During a visit by president
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to the Argentinian Congress in 1991 in
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he yelled at Bush and was sent out of the room.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zamora, Luis Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province Argentine deputies 2003–2005 1948 births Living people