Hugo Eduardo Herrera Arellano (born 5 February 1974) is a Chilean lawyer, philosopher and scholar dedicated to the Philosophy of Right.
A former member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) from 1993 to 1997,[1] Herrera is identified with centre-right politics, but proclaims to being distant from the neoliberal ideas[1] of Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys.
[2] He has also been classified by the libertarian Axel Kaiser as being close in thought to Chilean nationalism,[3] but Herrera prefers to pigeonhole himself into a "national-popular tradition", and within which he mainly rescues works of Alberto Edwards or historians like Francisco Antonio Encina and Mario Góngora.
In 2015 he was an independent member of the Political Committee of Chile Vamos, a centre-right coalition whose then leader was Sebastián Piñera.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in May 1998 after approving his thesis entitled «Fin, virtudes y ley en la 'Suma contra Gentiles».