Abraham Sergio Vuskovic Rojo (19 October 1930 – 19 August 2021), generally known as Sergio Vuskovic, was a Chilean politician, professor and writer. He was the mayor of

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from 1970 to 1973. Vuskovic was born in

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. During the government of the

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, he was appointed Mayor of the city of Valparaíso. After the coup of 1973, he was arrested and tortured in La Esmeralda. Later he was taken to

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, where he remained for eight months. In 1988 he was granted the Cittadinanza Onoraria of the city of

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, Province of Lecce, Italy.

Books

* ''La base material del pensamiento'', 1958 * ''Investigaciones sobre el origen del pensamiento'', 1961 * ''Diálogo con la Democracia Cristiana'', 1964 * ''Teoría de la ambigüedad'', 1964 * ''Revolución, Estado, Propiedad: problemática demócrata cristiana'', 1967 * ''Un filósofo llamado Lenin'', 1971 * ''El proceso revolucionario chileno'', 1973 * ''Del stalinismo a la perestroika'', 1991 * ''Breviario de Platón'', 1998

References

External links

Curriculum de Sergio Vuskovic in Spanish
1930 births 2021 deaths Chilean political writers Chilean people of Croatian descent Mayors of Valparaíso People from Illapel {{Chile-mayor-stub