The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, confirmed on the afternoon of this Wednesday, June 26, that the cassock in his possession corresponds the tunic worn by the priest Camilo Torres in the 1960s.
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Through his account on We have scientifically confirmed in Forensic Medicine that the cassock kept by a worker since the sixties, before the priest Camilo Torres Restrepo left for the ELN insurgency. and his death, and handed over to me, in weeks past by the caretaker, is effectively the cassock of Father Camilo Torres Restrepo”.
Likewise, he added “May his memory live in the memory of the people of Colombia. “Love resists.”
Who was Camilo Torres Restrepo?
Camilo Torres Restrepo was born in Bogotá, on February 3, 1929 and died in a combat between the ELN and the Army in the Patio Cemento village in Santander, on February 15, 1966.
Torres was a sociologist, researcher, political leader and prominent Colombian priest. A few days after having joined the ranks of the National Liberation Army (ELN), he was killed with two bullets in the middle of a combat.
The priest was a leader recognized for his work in teaching and research and constantly met with union leaders, politicians and ordinary people.
Camilo Torres traveled around the world, learned several languages and He was forged with an ideology linked to left-wing political movements, with which he made speeches against the upper classes of society.
Finally, he decided to abandon his vocation to enter the armed struggle due to persecution by the State and the Church itself for his ideological current. He ended up convinced that The only viable way to achieve structural changes in Colombia was weapons.
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