Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt

1955 -

Country of citizenship: Chile

Languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish

Educated at: Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford, University of London, St Antony's College, Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Santiago, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Institute of History, University of Chile

Occupation: historian, university teacher

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Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt Letelier is a Chilean writer and historian who gained notoriety by his study of the Chilean elite aristocracy and plutocracy and his criticism of traditional state-centered historiography. Jocelyn-Holt has also written several controversial columns, among them one in The Clinic in 2005 where he harshly criticized then presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet. He has two brothers: Enrique, an economist; and Tomás, lawyer and politician, former member of the Christian Democratic Party of Chile and ex-candidate for the 2013 election of Chile. Source: Wikipedia (en)