Camilo Torres Restrepo
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Camilo Torres Restrepo | |
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| Born |
Camilo Torres Restrepo 3 February 1929 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Died |
15 February 1966 San Vicente de Chucurí, Santander, Colombia |
| Cause of death | Killed in action |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism-Leninism Camilism Anti-revisionism Focoism Liberation Theology |
| Political party | ELN |
Camilo Torres Restrepo (3 February 1929 – 15 February 1966) Was a Colombian Catholic Priest, Marxst-Leninist guerilla, theologian, and large inspiration of general Liberation Theology. Camilo Torres was an Anti-Revisionist who denounced the Khrushchev Line, he cited Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, and Joseph Stalin as his primary influences. After his death, his ideology of reconciliation between revolutionary socialism and Catholicism became known as Camilism.