Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is a Chilean historian in Chile. He is famous for his research on social history and the understanding of the social movements. The most recent examples are the student protests from 2006 and 2011. Salazar was born into a low-income family. He studied history along with sociology and the philosophy department during his time at Universidad de Chile, and in the past, was an advisor to the historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. Salazar was a Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 until 1973. [2] In that year his torture was carried out in Villa Grimaldi by the military. When he was released from the prison camp for military He fled to England. He was awarded a scholarship for further study at University of Hull. In 1984, he was awarded the honor of a PhD from the University of Hull of Hull in Economic and Social History. He returned to Chile that year. Unknown to many, Salazar's breakthrough happened in 1985. Salazar studied peons, as well working class and proletarians. (1) Salazar is among the founders of the historiographic current known as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar considers history to be an efficient tool to facilitate social action. In an interview, Salazar has declared himself to be a "leftist and critical socio-historical historian" and rejected the title "Marxist"