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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Camilo Torres Restrepo

1929 - 1966

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Jorge Camilo Torres Restrepo (3 February 1929 – 15 February 1966) was a Colombian Marxist–Leninist, Roman Catholic priest, a proponent of liberation theology, and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN). During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism and Catholicism. 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.His involvement in several student and political movements during the time won him a large following as well as many detractors, especially from the Colombian government and the church itself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camilo Torres Restrepo has received more than 183,700 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Camilo Torres Restrepo is the 265th most popular social activist (down from 249th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Colombia and the most popular Colombian Social Activist.

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  • 22

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 265 out of 538Before him are David Frankfurter, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Robert Catesby, Joe Hill, Jesse Jackson, and Charles Boycott. After him are Clara Barton, Nimr al-Nimr, Viktors Arājs, M. N. Roy, Baba Amte, and Eunus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 172Before him are Anne Ramsey, Fred Sinowatz, Aleksandar Petrović, Lee Hazlewood, Josef Suk, and Elio Petri. After him are Hal Ashby, Arnold Palmer, Gaston Glock, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, James Hong, and Andre Gunder Frank. Among people deceased in 1966, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 90Before him are Väinö Tanner, J. F. C. Fuller, Philipp Frank, Homi J. Bhabha, Arthur Percival, and Nikolay Cherkasov. After him are John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Alfred P. Sloan, Gaspar Cassadó, Joseph A. Walker, Helen Kane, and Heimito von Doderer.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Camilo Torres Restrepo ranks 35 out of 306Before him are José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez (1919), Samael Aun Weor (1917), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Luis Garavito (1957), John Leguizamo (1964), and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900). After him are Juan Pablo Montoya (1975), Policarpa Salavarrieta (1795), Alfonso López Michelsen (1913), Juanes (1972), Laura Montoya (1874), and Alfonso López Trujillo (1935).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Colombia

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