Fernando Guillén Martínez

Biography

Fernando Guillén Martínez Fernando Guillén Martínez (1925–1975) was a Colombian researcher, journalist, historian, sociologist and essayist. Born in 1925, Bogota, Colombia, Guillén Martínez was a social scientist, considered as one of the most lucid essayists that Latin America has produced. Indeed, he was able to interpret the true historical, social and political structure that characterizes the Ibero-American countries and that has its roots in the Spanish medieval institutions that were transplanted into the "New World" where they acquired their own characteristics, generating a sociopolitical structure deeply unjust and difficult to combat, even in the theoretical field. The work of Guillén Martínez established a break with the work of his contemporaries who interpreted history as the exaltation in chronological...

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