Miguel Acosta Saignes: The driving force behind Venezuela's social sciences (+seeding)

On February 10, 1989, Miguel Acosta Saignes, Venezuelan essayist, anthropologist, historian, journalist, politician and educator, died in Caracas. Considered one of the promoters of Latin American anthropological studies and a promoter of social sciences in the country.

One of the representative features of Acosta Saignes' work is the multidisciplinary nature he embodied in his works, as Bolívar: Action and Utopia of the Man of Difficulties was his masterpiece, in which he unveiled the class struggle and the ways that the oligarchy implemented to seize social wealth.

In his studies of archeology, he embodied his idea that indigenous peoples, together with those of African origin, constituted the “root substrate” of contemporary Venezuela.

In addition, he was a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) and founder of the School of Journalism of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV).