Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in 2010
Born (1931-11-26) 26 November 1931 (age 92)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materNational University of La Plata
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 26 November 1931) is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980

Pacem in Terris Award.[1]

Early life

Pérez Esquivel was born in

non-violence.[1]

Plight for human rights

When systematic repression followed the

the military regime.[3] SERPAJ is a member of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which supported Esquivel's work from the beginning.[a]

Pérez Esquivel was detained by the

Brazilian Military Police in 1975. He was jailed in 1976 in Ecuador, along with Latin American and North American bishops. He was detained in Buenos Aires in 1977 by the Argentine Federal Police, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months; during that, he received, among other distinctions, the Pope John XXIII Peace Memorial.[1]

Distinctions

Nominated by 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureates

indigenous peoples of Argentina and environmentalism and against austerity policies and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.[5]

Pérez Esquivel was awarded the

Pacem in Terris Award
in 1999.

Pérez Esquivel served as president of the Honorary Council of Service, Latin American Peace and Justice Foundation and of the International League for Human Rights and Liberation of Peoples (based in

Esquel Police Department of training children into paramilitary squads, an operation that he compared to the creation of Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth.[8]

Recent years

Pérez Esquivel is a permanent lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences, where he directs the seminar "Culture for Peace and Human Rights".[7]

He opposed the European intervention in the

9/11.[9] He argued, "You know that there are people who have investigated the tragic events of 9/11/2001 and claim there is evidence that this was a self-coup (self-inflicted attack)."[9] Later, he added, "this event was the perfect excuse to launch a war against Afghanistan and Iraq and now against Libya," and referred to the United States an "axis of evil."[9]

Pérez Esquivel expressed himself regarding the historic, 13 March 2013, election of

Jesuits "he had lacked the sufficient courage shown by other Bishops to support our cause for human rights during the dictatorship."[10] Pérez Esquivel also said that "Bergoglio did what he could given his age at that time."[11] He, however, clarified that the future Pope "was no accomplice and had no links with the dictatorship" and that while "it is said he did not do enough to get two priests out of jail, I know personally that many bishops called on the military junta for the release of prisoners and priests and that these requests were not granted."[12]

In June 2017 he has been defending the government of Nicolás Maduro, in Venezuela, claiming that the country is undergoing a coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by the United States.[13]

He was hospitalized in January 2022 following a stroke.[14]

Works of art

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in 1983

Esquivel's work

UNHCR in Switzerland; the Latin American Peoples Mural in the Cathedral of Riobamba, Ecuador, dedicated to Monsignor Proaño and the indigenous peoples; and a bronze statue in tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Square, in Barcelona
.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ On 17 November 1980, his wife, Amanda, wrote a letter to Hildegard Goss-Mayr, IFOR travelling secretary: "This [Nobel] prize will have to be woven with all those who have been for years in this difficult task of uniting and reconciling brothers. Although I never told you this, through your letters and personal contacts you have stimulated in one way or another the path that Adolfo has walked. He has always had you as his first teacher, who one distant day arrived in Buenos Aires, connected with the Ark, and explained in the most simple and humble way what nonviolence was... [with] your suggesting... the way to work and organize. You have always accompanied us in the good and bad moments. For that reason too, I believe you are also part of this prize".[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Adolfo Pérez Esquivel on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Adolfo Pérez Esquivel". Peace Jam. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Panelist:Adolfo Pérez Esquivel". OAS. Archived from the original on 20 February 2002.
  4. ^ Deats, Richard (2009). "Letter to Amanda Esquivel". Marked for Life: The Story of Hildegard Goss-Mayr. Hyde Park, New York: New City Press. pp. 58–59.
  5. ^ a b c "Adolfo Pérez Esquivel". Encyclopedia of World Biography.
  6. ^ a b Carol Brennan. "Adolfo Pérez Esquivel". Contemporary Hispanic Biography.
  7. ^ a b "Biografía". Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012.
  8. ^ "Polémica en Argentina por la "policía infantil que promueve un sacerdote". Noticias24. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  9. ^ a b c d Luis Fleishman, The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America: A Dark Picture, The Americas Report: Center for Security Policy, 6 December 2012
  10. ^ "Bergoglio no fue cómplice directo de la dictadura pero no tuvo el coraje para acompañar nuestra lucha". InfoNews. 14 March 2013. Archived from the original on 15 March 2013.
  11. ^ El Nobel de la Paz Pérez Esquivel defiende al Papa durante la dictadura. elmundo.es. 14 March 2013.
  12. ^ "Bergoglio had no links with the dictatorship, says Nobel Peace Prize winner". Buenos Aires Herald. 14 March 2013.
  13. ^ "Dos Nobel de la Paz discutieron por Venezuela: Pérez Esquivel apoyó al chavismo y Arias declaró que el país "dejó de ser una democracia hace mucho tiempo". NTN24. 8 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  14. ^ Allen, Elise Ann (4 January 2022). "Pope prays for health of celebrated Argentine Nobel laureate". Crux. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  15. ^ Obra Artística. Official website of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (in Spanish)

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