faith and his connections with the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. During Pinochet's dictatorship, Vial publicly criticized the human rights situation in the country. After Chile made the transition to democracy, Vial joined the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which would produce the Rettig Report, in order to counterbalance the leftist-leaning members of the commission. He also took part in the Round-Table Discussion of 1999 to 2000, but did not sign the final declaration because he felt that it did nothing to further the objective of the undertaking, which was to find the bodies of people who had been "disappeared" by the regime. Works Historia de Chile (1891-1973) (), 6 volumes published: La sociedad chilena en el cambio de siglo (1891-1920) Triunfo y decadencia de la oligarquía (1891- 1920) Arturo Alessandri y los golpes militares (1920-1925) La dictadura de Ibáñez (1925-1931) De la república socialista al frente popular (1931-1938) Pinochet, la biografía Arturo Prat Salvador Allende: El fracaso de una ilusión Chile, cinco siglos de historia; desde los primeros pobladores prehispánicos hasta el año 2006. 2 Volumes. Coauthor of: El senado de Chile Balmaceda y la guerra civil La Sudamericana de Vapores Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, una biografía Jaime Eyzaguirre y su época References External links Gonzalo Vial's columns from the blog of the newspaper La Segunda Interview in the magazine Revista Capital Genealogy of the Vial Family from Genealog.cl 1930 births 2009 deaths Ministers of the military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990) People from Santiago Chilean Ministers of Education 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers 20th-century Chilean lawyers Chilean journalists Male journalists Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Deaths from cancer in Chile 20th-century journalists