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Pablo Miguel Huneeus Cox (born 1940 in Santiago) raised in New Jersey, is a Chilean writer and social critic.

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His more than thirty books are known for their lively personal style, sense of humor, and vivid portraits of real people. Several have been bestsellers.

Cox is the son of Chilean journalist and writer Virginia Cox Balmaceda. [1] Trained as a sociologist, he received his doctorate from the University of Paris (Sorbonne). Huneeus has worked as a consultant for United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland), as a researcher for ECLA (Economic Commission for Latin America) in Santiago, and as professor of industrial sociology at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Chile. He was the founding director of Chile's National Employment Service (SENCE). Due to his concern for freedom of speech, he launched the MUAC Movimiento Universal Anti Censura (Universal Anti Censorship Movement).

Huneeus is a frequent contributor as a columnist to several of Chile's newspapers and has been foreign correspondent for The Economist in London and for The Wall Street Journal. He is often guest on Chilean television talk shows and has hosted his own show.

In order to defend authors' rights as avowed by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works he copyrighted on behalf of José Ricardo Ojeda, the miner who penned on August 22 the now celebrated announcement The Times (October 22, 2010) acclaims as “the most famous sentence in the world this year.”

“The six words and one number” goes on to say the British newspaper, “have been replicated on T-shirts, flags and mugs. It has been presented to presidents, prime ministers and even the Queen. It was the sentence written on a scrap of paper, put in a plastic bag and attached to the drill that — 69 days after they went missing — reached the miners trapped half a mile beneath northern Chile’s Atacama desert. “Estamos bien en el refugio los 33,” it read. “We are well in the refuge — the 33”

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References

  1. "Falleció escritora y periodista Virginia Cox" [Writer and Journalist Virginia Cox Dies]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 3 October 2002. Retrieved 18 April 2017.