One of the people I admire in my career, psychology, is Ignacio Martín-Baró, but who is he? Or what he has done in psychology?
Well, Martín-Baró was born in Spain but he lived most of his years in El Salvador. He was a psycholgist and Jesuit priest who spent most of his work to the investigation of the difficult political and social realities of El Salvador and throughout Latin America. He died murdered by the armed forces of their country because of the ideas that had.
He proposed and defended the thesis that psychology should study the social and historical conditions of the territory where it is develop with the aspirations of the people residing in it. He believed that psychology students should learn to analyze human behavior in the specific contexts in wich scenarios developed and not artificial contexts.
I like because he fought for human rights, equality and social justice in Latin America, creating a new vision in social psychology. Also died for their ideas, wich makes him a martyr in the discipline.
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