Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara was born on 31 January 1936. He is Chilean historian. In Chile, he's best known for his research on the social past and the interpretation of social movements. It is evident in recent student protests that took place in 2006 and 2011. Salazar was born into a lower class family. He studied historical as well as sociology and the philosophy department at Universidad de Chile, and during his time, he served as working as an assistant for the historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. Salazar was the Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 to 1973. 2] In 1973, he was tortured in Villa Grimaldi by the military. Following his release from the prison camp for military, he fled to England. He was granted a scholarship for further studies at the University of Hull. He was awarded a PhD from the university within Economic and Social History. After that it was his return to Chile. Salazar was largely unknown up until 1985 when he made his first breakthrough. His subjects of research have included peons, labourers, proletariats, child Huachos, women and children. Salazar is one of the founding members of Nueva Historia Social which is the name of a current in history. Salazar considers history to be an effective instrument for the social sphere. In interview he has declared himself a "leftist, critically social historian" and has rejected the term "Marxist"