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Camilo Torres Restrepo

1929 - 1966

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Camilo Torres Restrepo (3 February 1929 – 15 February 1966) was a Colombian Catholic communist and Marxist–Leninist revolutionary, Catholic priest, author and a leader of the National Liberation Army (ELN). During his life, he advocated for an early form of Latin American liberation theology by trying to reconcile revolutionary socialism and Catholicism, an ideology which became known as Camilism and would later be adopted by the Montoneros. His social activism and willingness to work with Marxists troubled some. As part of the academic staff of the National University of Colombia, he was a co-founder of the Sociology Faculty together with Orlando Fals Borda, as well as some intellectuals such as Eduardo Umaña Luna, María Cristina Salazar, Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, Carlos Escalante, Darío Botero and Tomás Ducay, in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Camilo Torres Restrepo is the 268th most popular social activist (down from 266th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Colombia (up from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Colombian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 268 out of 840. Before him are Vera Figner, C. Rajagopalachari, Ho Jong-suk, Jacques Vergès, Edna Parker, and Sophie Adlersparre. After him are Christa Schroeder, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Guillaume Cale, Unity Mitford, Diana Budisavljević, and Carlo Cafiero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 165. Before him are Lennart Skoglund, Eva Schloss, Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Albert Azaryan, Princess Alix of Luxembourg, and Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze. After him are Selim Hoss, Aleksandar Petrović, Tayeb Salih, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Kiki Håkansson, and Carlos Lacoste. Among people deceased in 1966, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 83. Before him are Emil Brunner, Väinö Tanner, Bud Powell, Robert Rossen, Homi J. Bhabha, and Boris Podolsky. After him are Wieland Wagner, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Georges Theunis, Albert W. Hull, Alfred Neuland, and Heimito von Doderer.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 33 out of 356. Before him are Belisario Betancur (1923), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Ernesto Samper (1950), Rodrigo Lara (1946), Manuel Marulanda (1930), and Íngrid Betancourt (1961). After him are James Rodríguez (1991), Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900), Alfonso López Trujillo (1935), Samael Aun Weor (1917), Policarpa Salavarrieta (1795), and José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez (1919).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Colombia

Among social activists born in Colombia, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 1. After him are Policarpa Salavarrieta (1795), and Xiomara Acevedo (null).

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