Juan Bustos (politician)

Juan Bustos (December 8, 1935, Santiago – August 7, 2008) was a Chilean politician, law professor and lawyer.

[2] Bustos, a top Chilean law professor and human rights lawyer, represented many of the families of people killed by the Pinochet government.

[1] Bustos represented the family of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier, an opponent of Pinochet who was killed by a car bomb in Washington D.C. in 1976.

[1] He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile on March 13, 2008, a position he held until his death in August 2008.

[1] He died before gaining congressional approval for the creation of a new institute to be tasked with investigating the disappearance of thousands of opponents of the Pinochet regime.