A tribute to Rubén Ardila, leader in Latin American psychology
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Rubén Ardila, Colombian psychologist and leader of psychology in Latin America, died in Bogotá on January 14, 2025. The life and work of Rubén Ardila has been the subject of countless publications and well-deserved tributes, first during his lifetime and now posthumously. Our purpose in this obituary is to link those initiatives, as a tribute, and to express our most sincere gratitude as Rubén's students and colleagues, for his personal example, for all his teachings and for his legacy. The pain of his departure is mitigated in part by the certainty expressed by Rubén in the epigraph (“Vida nada me debes, vida estamos en paz”, "Life you owe me nothing, life we are at peace"), and by the hopeful reflection of Helio Carpintero, psychology historian and great friend of Rubén, who stated in the first posthumous tribute organized for Rubén Ardila on January 20, 2025 that above all, Ardila fulfilled his purpose in life.
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