Volume 13, Number 7 · October 23, 1969
Priest of Revolution
By John Womack
Camilo Torres
by Germán Guzmán
Sheed and Ward, 310 pp., $6.95
Camilo Torres, His Life and His Message
edited by John Alvarez García
Templegate, 128 pp., $3.95
Camilo Torres por el Padre Camilo Torres Restrepo (1956-1966), Sondeos No. 5.
Centro Intercultural de Documentación
(Available by order from the Centro, APDO 479, Cuernavaca.), $6.50
Colombia—Camilo Torres, Un Símbolo Controvertido, 1962-67, CIDOC Dossier No. 12. publications.)
Centro Intercultural de Documentación
(Available only to members of organizations subscribing to CIDOC
The historic view of Latin America is that it is a thrill. Huge mountains, lush jungles, exotic wealth and poverty, bloody politics—this is the exciting continent. The image has obsessed not only tourists and artists but businessmen, churchmen and statesmen, and revolutionaries. Its strongest enthusiasts now are the New Leftists, here, in Europe, and in Latin America. They see the death of Camilo Torres, the Colombian priest and sociologist killed in revolutionary action in 1966, like the death of Che in 1967 as a brilliant case of martyrdom in the long march to freedom. Camilo Torres is a special hero, a real intellectual who went off with the guerrillas.
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