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'''Camilo Torres Restrepo''' (3 February 1929 – 15 February 1966) was a Colombian [[Marxist–Leninist]], [[Roman Catholic]] priest, a proponent of [[liberation theology]], and a member of the [[National Liberation Army (Colombia)|National Liberation Army]] (ELN),. Today a [[Colombian insurgent guerrilla organization]], drug trafficker3 and terrorist4 of the extreme left.<ref>https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/R22645.pdf</ref> During his life, he tried to [[wikt:reconciliation|reconcile]] revolutionary [[Marxism]] and [[Catholicism]]. His social activism and willingness to work with Marxists troubled some.<ref>Bushnell, David. "Camilo Torres Restrepo". Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, v. 5, 258-59</ref>
 
As part of the academic staff of the [[National University of Colombia]], he was a co-founder of the Sociology Faculty together with [[Orlando Fals Borda]], as well as some intellectuals such as Eduardo Umaña Luna, María Cristina Salazar, [[Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda]], Carlos Escalante, [[Darío Botero]] and Tomás Ducay, in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=A 51 años de la muerte de Camilo Torres: "Insistamos en lo que nos une y prescindamos de lo que nos separa" (51 years after the death of Camilo Torres: "Let us insist on what unites us and do without what separates us") |url=https://desinformemonos.org/51-anos-la-muerte-camilo-torres-insistamos-lo-nos-une-prescindamos-lo-nos-separa/ |publisher=Desinformémonos |access-date=27 June 2022 |location=Colombia |language=Spanish |date=15 February 2017}}</ref>