Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara, a Chilean historian, was born 31 January 1936. He is known in his country for his study of sociology and its interpretation of political movements, especially the student protests that took place in both 2011-12 and 2006. Salazar was born to an impoverished family. Salazar attended Universidad de Chile and studied sociology, philosophy , and history. He also worked as an assistant for Mario Gongora and Hector Herrera Cajas the great historian. Salazar was a Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 until 1973. The group also brutalized him by the military at Villa Grimaldi that same year. He was released in 1976 from the military prison and was sent to exile in Britain. Here he was granted a scholarship that allowed him to continue studies at University of Hull. The university he attended earned the PhD diploma within Economic and Social History in 1984. In the following year the same year, he returned to Chile. Salazar was largely unknown until 1985 when he made his first breakthrough. His research subjects have included labourers, peons proletarians, children's muachos[A] as well as women. Salazar was one of the first members of Nueva Historia Social, a theoretical movement. Salazar considers history to be an instrument for promoting the social aspect. Salazar stated that he's uncompromising and left-leaning social historian in an interview. He vehemently rejected the "Marxist term."