Rodrigo Salago Bascuñán is a Canadian author who is best known for his non-fiction book Enter The Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent.
Born in Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

, Bascuñán's family immigrated to Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada in 1977 to escape the Pinochet dictatorship.

In 1998, Bascuñán began work on Pound

Pound (magazine)

Pound is a Toronto-based hip hop magazine that is distributed for free across Canada. Founded in 1998 and beginning publication in December 1999, Pound is published quarterly. As of July 2009, the magazine had published 42 issues.- History :...

Magazine, the magazine would debut a year and half later when the first issue was published in December 1999.