Camilo Torres — Liberation Theology

In the chronology

4 events in the chronology involve this figure.

Year	Date	Event
1965	1965-06-27	Camilo Torres laicized; leads the Frente Unido — Having co-founded Latin America's first sociology faculty at the Universidad Nacional after studying at Louvain, Torres asked to be reduced to lay status amid conflict with Cardinal Concha and gave his final Mass at the Church of San Diego, devoting himself to the Frente Unido popular-front movement whose weekly newspaper had launched that August. Months later he joined the ELN guerrilla.^{[3] [1]}
1966	1966-02-15	Death of Camilo Torres — The Colombian priest and sociologist, who had joined the ELN guerrilla, is killed in his first combat; later invoked as a precursor symbol, though his choice of armed struggle was not representative of liberation theologians.^[1]
2026	2026-01-23	Camilo Torres's remains identified — The ELN reports finding and hands over the remains of the guerrilla priest, identified some 60 years after his 1966 death.^[5]
2026	2026-02-18	Camilo Torres's remains handed over for reburial — Sixty years after his death, and after the state missing-persons unit (UBPD) confirmed the identification by DNA, Torres's remains were handed to activist priest Javier Giraldo following a Mass at the Universidad Nacional, where President Gustavo Petro backed reburial on the campus Torres had served as chaplain.^{[6] [7] [5]}