Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997)

He is Brazilian sociologist and economist, very renowned in the development of the discipline y Latino America. He is known for being one of the main thinkers of the “teoría de la dependencia” and also, for making use of the Marxist theory in the Latin-American context. Marini has an especial bond with Chile, due to his participation as a militant in the MIR (movimiento izquierda revolucionaria) in the seventies. 

His main work, “Dialectica de la dependencia”, is very relevant nowadays for the sociological discipline.Because of the detailed analysis that Marini does about the Latin-American countries development conditions. Which are defined by their dependency in a context of global capitalism. Studies on this subject are very important for the discipline, in which Marini is one of the essential authors.

The first time I Heard about him was at school, was by doing homework in the history class about the MIR founding and principal thinkers. Later on, during my second semester I took the Latin-American Social History class. In which I had the chance the read a bit more of his work. That even today stills call my attention.

The (Anti) Poet

A lot of Chilean people think Pablo Neruda is the best poet ever. When they say “Chile, country of poets” in general they are thinking in Neruda or Mistral, our two Nobel. I think this is a horrible mistake, because Nicanor Parra has been forget.

I think there are not something more poetic than the antipoetry of Parra. He demolished the classic structure of the verses as much is possible. He takes the idyllic and distant poetry and converts it in something ordinary and human. In other words, he put in the street and houses something that always belonged to libraries of the high classes.

Nicanor Parra began to inspire on the common, the routine, the injustice, also he inspired on love, but a Chilean love, something more picaresque.In sum, he did an act of rebellion and gave to the people the faculty to express them interiority in an easy way. He gave to the people the opportunity to reclaims and up in arms from de verses. He killed the traditional poetry.