José Rodríguez Elizondo

José Alejandro Vladimir Rodríguez Elizondo (born 10 June 1936) is a Chilean lawyer and diplomat who was awarded with the National Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2021. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in laws in 1960 at the University of Chile, his alma mater.

During the Popular Unity (1970−1973), Rodríguez Elizondo worked in the Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO). Following the 1973 coup d'état, he went into exile to East Germany, where then he escaped to the West Germany in mid 1970s. After that, he based in Peru from 1977 to 1986, where he worked for Caretas magazine alongside figures like the writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

He has been a columnist in media like El Líbero, liberal e-newspaper. Similarly, he has gained renown through his book «History of the civil-military relationship in Chile», work that has been released in interviews like the developed by Tomás Mosciatti in April 2018. Provided by Wikipedia