Alfonso López Trujillo — Liberation Theology

In the chronology

2 events in the chronology involve this figure.

Year	Date	Event
1972	1972-11-22	López Trujillo elected CELAM secretary-general — Alfonso López Trujillo was elected secretary-general of CELAM at Sucre, Bolivia, on 22 November 1972; from this post (and the CELAM presidency from 1979) he became, in the widely held reading, the leading intra-Latin-American institutional opponent of liberation theology.^{[1] [3]}
2008	2008-04-19	Death of Alfonso López Trujillo — Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo — CELAM secretary-general (from 1972) and president (from 1979), later president of the Pontifical Council for the Family — died in Rome on 19 April 2008; his funeral Mass was celebrated by Benedict XVI in St Peter's Basilica on 23 April.^{[1] [2]}