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Called to France in 1944 by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, returned to United States in 1945 After a brief stay in the French Embassy in Washington as a cultural attache (1946-1947), returned to Paris for his PhD at the Sorbonne after presenting dissertation and thesis (1948): the social and family life of the Nambikwara Indians and the elementary structures of kinship. Strauss father of modern anthropology, I leave mark on the social and human sciences, with his works exerted much influence in Western culture. It is worth noting as the journal La Nacion of Argentina, than it says about this fact and praised, with an unorthodox academic record for French medium and author of some 30 works – many of them classic ybest sellers e_SEnD, Levi-Strauss influenced philosophers, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, semiologos, linguists, but above all incarnated the ideal of modern intellectual, with an ambitious study object: human thinking. At least 25 countries had celebrated his 100th birthday, almost a year ago. France, including a show at the museum dedicated to him du Quai Branly in Paris, that they visited more than 12. 000 people, with 100 lectures on his work, projections, photographs and brought objects from his travels around America. Almost locked up in his house in Paris in recent years, Levi-Strauss did not attend.

Few intellectuals have ventured as far as Levi-Strauss in the exploration of the hidden mechanisms of culture, synthesized yesterday Le Monde, in his farewell to the intellectual, which several voices, is irreplaceable in the French cultural scene. Behind the label of structuralism – who himself ended up rejecting-, Levi-Strauss developed an innovative way to explain the operation of human thought, paying attention to their underlying structures and detecting those principles – such as binary thought – that give way in any cultural context. It reminds us also Wikipedia, than his work with similar title to the famous elementary forms of the religious life, emile Durkheim, the elementary structures of kinship, re-examined how people they organized their families in a very technical and complex work.

Both URD and COPEI (last that supported the overthrow of Democratica-gallegos action), could participate to cultivate an attitude of conciliation with the Government; Parties democratic action (AD) and the Communist Party (1. 950) had been dissolved since they sponsored resistance to the regime with worker strikes and peasant protests since the fall of Gallegos. Coup and military dictatorship 1. 952, December 2: then that the junta repudiation electoral results, MPJ receives Government command, thus initiating a dictatorial phase which lasted until 1. 958 MPJ is declared in the Presidency through the SN.

Villalba is expelled from the country. Once again the military Junta calls for constituent Assembly. 1. 953, 9 January: the Assembly meets Constituent, same as, after reforming the Constitution, appoints MPJ President for five years, also designating the members of the Congress. MPJ: Creates the Office of special studies (later Cordiplan) active service of the autopista Caracas – La Guaira creates city vacacional Los Caracas creates the Venezuelan Institute of iron and steel (today CVG) began the development of the petrochemical industry of Moron in the construction industry begins to live a period of boom during his tenure: lived a moment of apparent well-being and increase tax revenuesdue to the boom in sales of oil and exploitation of iron. MPJ reagent the granting of concessions with oil, suspended for eleven years. His regime was characterized by the rapacity: pertaining to the regime officials were made with excessive fortunes by using embezzlement, illicit enrichment, nonprofit…

Cruelty, also marked, to the regime, primarily through the SN: controlled and It silenced the opposition leadership, through jail and torture. Political killings became frequent. The Central University and several high schools were closed, and his teaching went to jail or exile in dozens of cases.