The Best in my Field: Arturo Valenzuela ...

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In this post, I’m going to write about one of the most important Chilean political theorist of the last years: Arturo Valenzuela.

He was born in Concepcion in 1944 and he spent his childhood in his natal city. In 1960 the great Valdivia earthquake destroyed his school, so he moved to the United States for a year as an exchange student to finish school, but he ended up establishing his life there. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude in Political Science and Religion from Drew University and in 1971 he obtained a Doctorate and a Master's degree in Political Science from Columbia University. His studies focused on politics in Latin America.

Valenzuela has been a visiting scholar of different universities in England, United States, Italy and Chile. Currently is the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Also of a fruitful academic life, he has a fruitful political life in USA. In the first Clinton administration was chosen to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs in the United States Department of States. In the second Clinton administration he was chosen to be the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House.

I think that Arturo Valenzuela is the best in my field because in his books he explains the Chilean political history of the last 40 years. I read one of his most important works: “Chile and The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes”. In it, Valenzuela explains the causes of the Chilean State breakdown on September, 1973. Also, I think than he is the best in my field because in the United States he remains as an important political actor: On May, 2009 Valenzuela was nominated by President Barack Obama as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. If it’s confirmed his nomination, he would be “The man of Obama in America”.

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My Favorite Photo (Correction) ...

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If I have to choose between beach, countryside and city, definitely, I choose the city ... Although few believe me, some cities have beautiful landscapes; this picture is a clear example.

My favorite photo is a metropolis. This photo shows magnificently Hong Kong, one of the most important cities in China. Located in the south of the country, this city is incredible. The city has many skyscrapers of different forms and, also, the city has much activity economic, politic, culture, day and night both.

This photo was taken in 2005 and I found it in the Google Image Search. The photo shows the central district of Hong Kong at night from Mount Victoria. I like this photo because it shows than the cities aren’t only routine and gray buildings; the lights, the high buildings, the people and the car traffic are not always bad. In Santiago, from San Cristobal hill, you can view the city in a way similar to this photo. It’s amazing ;)

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My Major ...

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I study Public Management in the University of Chile, and I still think than enter to this major was a good election. I recognize than the first major in my list was Laws, but I was never sure study it.

I’m a person than always is worry for the different events than happen in my country, looking each one of its steps, and analyzing the reason for they happen and its possible impacts. This was one of the principal reason for study my major, because the public management can change of life the much people, helping to than the people live better.

In the society, the publics managements works in the big structure called State, forming part of systems it as: Educational System, Health System. For this reason, a good management it can better the life of the population.

A professional of public management should know about different areas of the State, because converge many variables in it: Politic, Economic, Social, Culture, Legal.

I’m in a second year of my major, and still I don’t know such is my favorite subject, but I think than my favorites subject was History of Politic’s Institutions, History of Politic’s Thinking and Laws (Constitutional and Administrative Laws).

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