Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is a Chilean historian in Chile. He is known in his country for his studies of the social past and his interpretation of popular movements, including protests by students in 2011, 2012 and 2006. Salazar was raised by a low-income family. He was a student of the fields of sociology, history, and philosophy on the Universidad de Chile. He was also an assistant for Mario Gongora, a classical historian, and Hector Herrera Cajas, a historian. Salazar was the Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 until 1973. Two years later, the group was assaulted in Villa Grimaldi by the military. When he was released from the prison camp for military and fleeing to England, he retreated. He was awarded a scholarship for further studies at University of Hull. In the same university, he was awarded a PhD diploma within Economic and Social History in 1984. Then he returned to Chile within the next year. The relatively unknown Salazar's breakthrough occurred in the year 1985. He studied peons as well workers and proletarians. [1] Salazar is among the pioneers of the historiographic movement known as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar views history as a tool to promote social action. Salazar stated that he's uncompromising and left-leaning social historian during an interview. Salazar resisted the "Marxist term."