Samuel Ruiz
Male, Person or entity appearing in film
1924 – 2011
Who was Samuel Ruiz?
Samuel Ruiz García was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, from 1959 until 1999. Ruiz is best known for his role as mediator during the conflict between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and the Institutional Revolutionary Party, a Mexican political party which had held power for over seventy years, and whose policies were often disadvantageous to the indigenous populations of Chiapas. Inspired by Liberation Theology, which swept through the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America during the 1960s, Ruiz’s diocese helped some hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya people in Chiapas who were among Mexico’s poorest and marginalized communities.
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- Born
- Nov 3, 1924
Mexico City - Religion
- Catholicism
- Education
- Pontifical Gregorian University
- Lived in
- Guanajuato
- Died
- Jan 24, 2011
Mexico City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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