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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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
(1998) A Place Called Chiapas
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