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Blog 7: "Comandante Tamara: From Sociology to Revolution"

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Cecilia Magni also know as "Comandante Tamara" was a chilean revolutionary sociologist who studied Sociology at the Universidad de Chile in the 80’s.

Cecilia was born in 1956 in in a high class family, is that why she studied in a exclusive school of Santiago, the Grange School, after this, in 1080 she ingress to the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FACSo) of the Universidad de Chile. In this year,  she united to the Juventudes Comunistas of the Partido Comunista de Chile, and then, she united to the Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez and start her career of a armed revolutionary being a protagonist in the atack to the dictator Augusto Pinochet named “Operación siglo XX”.


In my opinion, she is important in my field because she combined two important things, given to you by sociology: the tools to analyze society and action to transform reality. She understood that the context was so complex because of the dictatorship and she acted in the name of justice. I think she has been an influence for me, because she was really brave, she left everything to fight against the dictatorship and turned her life into a collective project, leaving behind all her privileges and being willing to give life if necessary, and that was how she died in 1988 murdered by dictatorship forces after the Pinochet’s caravan atack.





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