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a short-enterteinful video abut how camilo torres was when he was live.....camilo torres lives!!!!!!!for ever and ever!!!! (it's in spanish language)


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45 years later...

Torres died on February 15, 1966 in Cement Patio, after fighting with troops of the Fifth Brigade of Bucaramanga, led by Colonel Alvaro Valencia Tovar. The army hid the body in a strategic location separate from other mass graves and the place was not  revealed to the public.

Years later, Valencia Tovar, now retired as a general, wrote the book The End of Camilo, which clarified details of the death of Camilo Torres. According to Valencia Tovar, Torres was buried in a detailed site and prepared the paperwork to give the remains to the family. On the fate of the corpse was buried his older brother, the doctor Fernando Torres Restrepo, who lived in the United States.

the father and the guerrilla

he served as a low-ranking member of the ELN to whom he also provided spiritual assistance and inspiration from a Marxist-Christian point of view. He was killed in his first combat experience, when the ELN ambushed a Colombian Military patrol. After his death, Camilo Torres was made an official martyr of the ELN.

He is perhaps best known for the quote: "If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero.

about camilo torres restrepo

Father Camilo Torres Restrepo (born in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 February 1929 – died in Santander on 15 February 1966) was a Colombiansocialist, Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of liberation theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillaorganisation. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism and Catholicism.

Torres was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954, but continued to study for some years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Leuven(Louvain) in Belgium. When he returned to Colombia, he increasingly felt obliged to actively support the cause of poor and the labouring class. Camilo Torres believed that in order to secure justice for the people, Christians had a duty to use violent action.