deaths
February 15, 1966
Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and theologian (born 1929)
Camilo Torres Restrepo
Camilo Torres Restrepo 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.