Latin America Witnesses: Bishop Ruiz, the champion of the poor and indigenous
He was a defender of the Mayans in southern Mexico and a mediator in peace talks between rebels and the government. Samuel Ruiz Garcìa was born on November 3, 1924, in Irapuato, in central Mexico. He was the eldest of five children, and his parents struggled to survive on a shared smallholding and a little …
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