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Catholic Bishops and Human Rights in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Agostino Bono
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The church will have to inculcate in the armed forces that, besides their specific and normal functions, they have a mission to guarantee the political liberties of citizens instead of constructing obstacles. -Latin American Catholic Bishops Conference Medellin, Colombia, September, 1968

While Juan Felix. Bogado was attending patients in his shantytown medical office outside Asuncion, Paraguay, last July 19, police broke in and hustled away the thirty-two-year-old doctor, claiming he was a subversive. As most Paraguayan political prisoners, Bogado was subjected to “intensive therapy,” the local euphemism for torture.

“They tried to get him to confess he was a Communist and threatened to torture me before his eyes,” says his wife, who at the time was four months pregnant.

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Worldview , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , November 1977 , pp. 4 - 7
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1982

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