Hermógenes Pérez de Arce Ibieta

Hermógenes Pérez de Arce
Official portrait (2018)
Deputy of the Republic
In office
15 May 1973  21 September 1973
Preceded byGustavo Monckeberg Barros
Succeeded byDissolution of the position (After the 1973 coup d'état)
Personal details
Born (1936-01-10) 10 January 1936
Santiago, Chile
Political partyNational Party (1983–1987)
National Force (2019–)
SpouseMaría Soledad Vial Valdés
ChildrenFour
Parent(s)Jorge Pérez de Arce Plummer
María Ibieta Egaña
RelativesHermógenes Pérez de Arce Lopetegui (great-grandfather)
Guillermo Pérez de Arce (uncle)
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer

Hermógenes Pérez de Arce Ibieta (born 10 January 1936) is a Chilean lawyer and politician who served as deputy during Salvador Allende's government. In his country, he is commonly known for being a fierce supporter of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. More precisely, he is known for being a leading denialist of the human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile.

For long time Hermógenes Pérez de Arce was a regular columnist in El Mercurio. Prior to that, he was active in Portada, a magazine with conservative, Catholic and Francoist leanings. He is also a writer and has written several books. In 2003 he was homaged in Casa Piedra by hard-line Pinochetists for "rescuing the historical truth of Chile".

In December 2019 Pérez de Arce was expelled from the TV program Bienvenidos by hostress Tonka Tomicic for his repeated denialist comments. Subsequently, Senator Alejandro Navarro proposed a Chilean law against denialism dubbed "Ley Hermógenes".