[5] Frustrated about his chances of joining, at the age of 14 he entered the Arturo Prat Naval School [es], a branch of the Chilean Navy, located in Valparaíso.
[5] After graduating in History, he moved to the Sociology department at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) to do her master's degree.
[7][8] With the establishment of the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1964, intellectuals such as Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Francisco Weffort and Vilmar Faria went into exile in Chile, where they met Faletto.
[5] The book was first published in Brazil by Zahar [pt] in Rio de Janeiro in 1970 under the title Dependência e Desenvolvimento na América Latina.
[11][12][13] A decade after its release in Mexico, the book was published in the United States by the University of California Press under the title Dependency and development in Latin America.