Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara was born in 1936, on the 31st January. He was a prominent figure in Chilean history. The historian is well-known in the nation for his research into the social past and his interpretation of protests, especially the recent student protests of 2006 and 2011-12. Salazar was born to a poor family. Salazar attended Universidad de Chile and studied social sciences, philosophy, and the history of Chile. In addition, he was an assistant for Mario Gongora and Hector Herrera Cajas the famous historian. Salazar was part of the Revolutionary Left Movement from 1971 to 1973. [2] In that year he was tortured in Villa Grimaldi by the military. In 1976, he was released from the military prison and was sent to exile in the United Kingdom. There he obtained a scholarship for continued studies in University of Hull. He received the PhD in Economic and Social History from the university in the year 1984. After that after that, he returned to Chile. The relatively unknown Salazar's breakthrough occurred in the year 1985. Salazar's study subjects were labourers, peons and children their huachos[A] along with women. Salazar was among the pioneers of Nueva Historia Social, a historiographic movement. Salazar believes that history is an effective tool to guide social action. In an interview, Salazar has declared himself a "leftist as well as a an eminent socio-historical historian" and has rejected the term "Marxist"