Gonzalo Vial Correa | |
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Education Minister of Chile | |
In office 26 December 1978 – 14 December 1979 | |
President | Augusto Pinochet |
Preceded by | Luis Niemann Núñez |
Succeeded by | Alfredo Prieto Bafalluy |
Personal details | |
Born | Santiago, Chile | 29 August 1930
Died | 30 October 2009 Santiago, Chile | (aged 79)
Spouse | María Luisa |
Children | 7 |
Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile |
Profession | Lawyer, historian, and journalist |
Gonzalo Vial Correa (29 August 1930 – 30 October 2009) was a Chilean historian, lawyer and journalist. He was a member of the State Defense Council and the Council on Ethics in Social Media.[1] In addition he was president of the Barnechea Foundation for Education, which he founded with his wife, María Luisa Vial Cox.[2]
In 2005, Vial was voted the most influential intellectual in Chile by 112 Chilean scholars and politicians.[3] In August 2010 the Faculty of History at Finis Terrae University instituted a prize bearing his name.[4]
Despite this recognition, Gonzalo Vial has been widely criticized for his work White Book on the Change of Government in Chile, written immediately after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and supervised by Admiral Patricio Carvajal, which described the so-called "Plan Zeta". Plan Zeta disseminated the false idea that left-wing elements were organizing a self-coup against President Salvador Allende and the Unidad Popular, and for years this was the main justification of the coup and subsequent establishment of a military government. Under the pretense of countering Plan Zeta, the DINA arrested, tortured, and murdered many people.[5]
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