Julio Villegas Bustos or the generosity in vocaonal training Roberto Polanco-Carrasco Asociación Chilena de Revistas Cienficas de Psicología "At this stage of my life, I face a circumstance as painful as sad, and inevitable that makes my percepon of me more vulnerable, more senmental and briefer with close people. That is why this Premio Interamericano de Psicología allows me to leave my proud memories as a husband, as a father, as a father-in-law and as a grandfather. " Lima Peru. 2015. With these words, on July 12th, 2015, in the beauful city of Lima, Julio F. Villegas becomes the first Chilean psychologist to receive the Premio Interamericano de Psicología. This recognion disnguishes his work that for many years developed in the framework of the training psychologists in Lan America, as a professional always concerned in endorse and spread varied studies about the evaluaon and implementaon of the necessary curricular advances to make fit the training of psychologists based in current internaonal standards. Julio leſt us less than a year later (March 11th, 2016) aſter a long illness that yet never diminished his enthusiasm for parcipang in different naonal and internaonal acvies. About the life and work of Julio Villegas Bustos, several texts have been wrien in this short me, the speech that he gave when accepng the prize in the 35th° Congreso Interamericano de Psicología was fully published as the editorial at Cuadernos de Neuropsicología Vol. 9 (2) de 2015 . There are also several reviews of his life that can be found, for example, in PSIENCIA, Revista Lanoamericana de Ciencia Psicológica Vol. 8 (1) 2016 , in Cuadernos de Neuropsicología Vol. 10 (1) 2016 and soon there will be a special menon in Revista Argenna de Ciencia del Comportamiento . It is also possible to find his first review arcle that shows extensively his thought and scienfic producon, Cuadernos de Neuropsicología Vol. 10 (2) 2016. On a personal level, I had the privilege to meet Julio as my professor of social psychology, He always talked about research and Lan American authors in a personal, close and enthusiasc way, since many of them were his friends, I remember that those years, he smoked during classes and his pauses between ideas were patent by the me between lighng one cigar and