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Jorge Larraín

Jorge Larraín is professor of sociology and pro-vice-chancellor at Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago. He is also emeritus professor of sociology at Birmingham University, UK. His books include Identity and Modernity in Latin America (Polity, 2000) and Identidad Chile (LOM, 2001).

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Pinochet's death

Augusto Pinochet introduced a fracture in Chilean identity which remains unhealed, writes Jorge Larraín of Alberto Hurtado University.