Following is presented the interview with the Brazilian sociologist Theotonio Dos Santos. The main issue discussed was his stay in Chile during the sixties and the early seventies. Along the interview there was a look into the intellectuality of the age, the spaces for reception and diffusion of the ideas and the link between intellectuals and revolutionary process in Latin America and Chile. Before the interview there is a biography as introduction to Dos Santos, besides several cross-references are included to contextualize, clarify or amplify the interviewed statements. That way, next pages can be read as a double text, the first one presents the answer of the interviewed and the second one goes along the trajectory of the intellectual and political spaces Chilean and Brazilian.