Gabriel
Gabriel Salazar Vergara, a Chilean historian, was born on 31 January 1936. In Chile, he's best known for his research in the field of social history as well as the analysis of movements in society. The most recent examples are the student protests in 2006 and in 2011. Salazar was born into an extremely poor family. Salazar attended Universidad de Chile and studied sociology, philosophy and history. Also, he worked as an assistant for Mario Gongora and Hector Herrera Cajas the classical historian. Salazar was a Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 to 1973. Military tortured him at Villa Grimaldi during that year. After being released from the military prison camp and fleeing to England, he retreated. He was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to continue studies at University of Hull. In 1984, he was awarded the honor of a PhD from the university of Hull in Economic and Social History. Following that after that, he returned to Chile. Salazar was relatively unknown until 1985 when he made his breakthrough. He was a scholar of peons and the proletariat and laborers. Salazar is one of the founding members of Nueva Historia Social which is an ongoing historical trend. Salazar regards history as an important tool for political action. In an interview, he declares himself a "leftist as well as a critique social historian" and rejected the label "Marxist"




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