Samuel Ruiz García

Acting

Birthday

1924/11/03

Day of death

2011/01/24 (86 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Guanajuato, Mexico

Also know as

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Biography

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 (EZLN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), 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 Liber...Read more

Acting
A Place Called Chiapas
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(1998) A Place Called Chiapas

as Self