Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is a Chilean historian from Chile. The historian is well-known in the country for his study of social history and interpretations of popular movements, including protests by students in 2006 and 2011-12. Salazar was born into an economically poor family. He was a student of the fields of sociology, history, and philosophy on the Universidad de Chile. He worked as an assistant to Mario Gongora, a classical historian and Hector Herrera Cajas, a historian. 1. Salazar was associated with the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973. Military tortured him at Villa Grimaldi during that year. After his release from the military prison camp and fleeing to England, he retreated. In the United Kingdom, he received an award of scholarship which allowed him to study further at University of Hull. He earned the PhD on Economic and Social History from this university in 1984. After that the same year, he returned to Chile. Salazar achieved a breakthrough in 1985. His work is largely unknown. Salazar's study subjects were workers, peons and kids huachos[A] as well as women. Salazar was among the founding members of Nueva Historia Social, a history-based movement. Salazar believes that history is an efficient tool to facilitate actions in society. In an interview, he declares himself a "leftist or an eminent social historian" and has rejected the term "Marxist"