Luis Barriga Errázuriz (22 January 1895 – 26 September 1978) was a Chilean lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commerce during the so-called Socialist Republic of Chile, under the government juntas headed by Arturo Puga, Carlos Dávila and Bartolomé Blanche in 1932.
Early life Barriga was born in Santiago, Chile, on 22 January 1895, the third of nine children of lawyer and judge Luis Ignacio Barriga Espinoza and Elvira Errázuriz Valero.
His mother was the daughter of Carmen Valero Sotomayor and Nicanor Errázuriz Errázuriz, who in turn was the son of Concepción Errázuriz Mayo and politician Francisco Javier Errázuriz Sotomayor, who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1840 and 1849.
Francisco Javier Errázuriz was himself the son of politician Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, who served as vice president and provisional president of Chile in 1831, and María del Carmen Sotomayor, who served as first lady.
Barriga completed his primary and secondary education at St. Ignatius College, Santiago. He subsequently studied at the Faculty of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating in 1926 after completing a thesis entitled La hipoteca de la cosa ajena ("The mortgage of another person's property"). He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Chile on 30 September of that year. He later pursued a doctorate in law at the University of Paris in France.
Political career Barriga practised law and served as a professor of civil law and director of the private law seminar at the Faculty of Law, University of Chile.
In 1931, he was among the founding members of the New Public Action (NAP), a precursor to the Socialist Party of Chile (PS), which he also joined following its establishment in 1933.
On 5 June 1932, Arturo Puga, president of the Government Junta of the so-called Socialist Republic of Chile, appointed Barriga Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commerce. He remained in the post under the subsequent provisional administrations of Carlos Dávila and General Bartolomé Blanche, serving until 14 September 1932. He served as the full minister from 5 to 16 June, as acting minister from 16 June to 11 July, and again as the full minister from 11 July until the end of his tenure.
Barriga was a member of the Chilean Bar Association, where he also served as a councillor. He died in Santiago on 26 September 1978, at the age of 83.
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