Luis Mariano Rendón Escobar (born 22 March 1963) is an activist and lawyer dedicated to human rights (DD. HH.) and ecological rights.
As an activist, he has participated in social movements that have defended communities affected by large-scale mining and energy projects with high population impact.
In 2011, he participated in the mass mobilizations against HidroAysén, which brought together 100,000 people in the capital, Santiago. These demonstrations converged with the student protests. Ten years later, he filed successive lawsuits against President Sebastián Piñera and other high-ranking authorities for their handling of the 2019 Chilean social crisis.
Biography Professional career He was a leader of the University of Chile Student Federation during the 1980s, where he began his activism in the Communist Youth of Chile (JJ.CC). In this way, he contributed to the removal of Rector José Luis Federici in 1987. These activities led to him being persecuted by agents of the dictatorship (1973–1990), with his case being recognized by the Comisión Valech.
In 1983, he entered the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de Chile. He was a student activist, eventually joining the leadership of FECH in 1990. He later obtained a master's degree in Management and Public Policy from the same university.
He has been a professor of Environmental Law at the University of Chile, at the UTEM and at the Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello.
He was also a professor of Administrative Law at UTEM, and author of essays on Environmental Law and Environmental Ethics, published in Chile and abroad. Outside his academic life, he has run for elected office, though never elected.
Public life In 2010, he took part in a citizen mobilization against the approval of the Barrancones Thermoelectric Plant due to the potential environmental damage such companies could cause. He participated in movements opposing projects such as Pascua Lama.
On 20 October 2011, he led a group of activists who occupied the former National Congress, demanding a plebiscite to initiate a constituent assembly to replace the 1980 Constitution. As a result, the Public Prosecutor's Office pressed charges, but after a lengthy trial, he was acquitted. Later, in 2016, he joined the movement opposing the TPP-11, or Trans-Pacific Partnership. Rendón argued it forced countries into a “primitive ecological model.”
In 2017, he filed a complaint with FIFA regarding the alleged match-fixing between Peru and Colombia, played in Lima on 10 October of that year. Rendón claimed that the teams did not respect the laws of ethics and professionalism by allegedly agreeing to a draw. He sought to have points deducted or the teams excluded from the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.FIFA responds to lawyer who denounced the Peru-Colombia match, https://colombia.as.com/colombia/2017/10/23/futbol/1508774674_894389.html. Accessed 23 October 2017 However, his complaint was dismissed for lack of evidence.
References
External links Columns by L.M. Rendón – El Mostrador