Maritza Montero

Maritza Montero is one of the pioneers of Latin American Social Psychology, is a community psychologist from Venezuela. She has a MA in Psychology from the University Simón Bolívar and Ph.D. Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Affairs of the University of Paris.
Moreover she has done class in universities from America, Europe and Australia and she has written numerous articles in scientific journals and many books too.
I think that she is a great psychologist because she proposes a very different form of access to a community and she is committed to the liberation and transformation of Latin American societies. In fact she is a very important person in her approach. She received the Inter-American Psychology award in 1995 and the National Science Award in the area of Social Sciences, in Venezuela in the 2000
Maritza Montero does conferences often; in this picture she appears in the commemoration of 50 years at the School of Psychology of Catholic University of Chile. On that occasion, she presented "Challenges, tools and current prospects of Community Psychology”.
If you didn´t know about her. I hope now, you are more interested in their theorizations.

My favorite group?

I would like to talk about one of the group that I like a lot: The Beatles. I don´t really know what my favorite group is, like, “the one”. I have never asked myself about that, I just listen the music; I like a lot the music, in all his kinds….

Well, The Beatles were an English Rock Band during the sixties, but they reached so high in popularity, that until our days people hears them. I think that their characterize because of be one of the “classic” type of groups.

Their music mix many genres ranging from folk rock to psychedelic pop. Through their music, were an inspiration for the people of the sixties, as they represented ideals that had to do with a cultural transformation and social movements, as women's liberation, gay liberation and environmentalism.

¿Why do I like them? I don´t know! I just enjoy listening their music

About the earthquake

I remember that during the afternoon that the earthquake happened I spend all day at my department with my parents. They were travelling around the 4th region by car, and before they return to Iquique the last stop was Santiago.

At night, around ten or ten thirty, I meet with some friends to go to a classmate home that were going to celebrate his birthday, so we went there to celebrate.

Before that the earthquake starts I was sitting I the front yard talking with some classmates. At first I thought that was a slow movement that was going to past quickly. But it started to move stronger and the light turn off. The only thing that I could think while this was happening was in my parents, they were sleeping in the 17th floor. I was so afraid for them. I took my cell phone the fast that I could and I wait that the movement stops. I call immediately and I could communicate with them, there were ok. After an hour I return to my home and met my parents.

I´m...

Hi! my name is Paulina. I´m 23 years old. I study Psichology, this is my fourth year at the career. I´m not from Santiago, but I came to live here because of my studies. My hometown is Iquique, in the north of Chile. Sometimes I miss a lot to live there. I miss the weather, the people, and the most: the bech. I love to watch the dusk sitting on the sand, the view is amazing, you can see a lot of colors in that especific moment! I think thats why I miss so much the beach. In Santiago you are all surrounded by buildings... you only can see cement. Well, the nature is one of the thing that I love the most, included anothers that I can tell you in other moment. I hope you don`t get so bored... see you in class =S