Camilo Torres, Priest, Politician, Terrorist

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SKU: 037056
£47.50

First edition, first impression.  70pp.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Covers a little rubbed at corners and spine ends.  An ex university library copy with call number taped to spine, usual markings on the front endpapers and stamps and annotations on half title, title and copyright pages and last printed leaf (no other library markings) else internally neat and clean. 

Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929-1966) was a Colombian catholic priest and communist revolutionary leader of the National Liberation Army who advocated an early form of Latin American Liberation theology which reconciled revolutionary socialism with Catholicism. A guerrilla activist, he died after combat with troops led by his childhood friend, Colonel Alvaro Valencia Tovar.  Very hard to find title.

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