Gonzalo Arroyo

Gonzalo Arroyo SJ (born September 9, 1925 in Santiago de Chile , † May 21, 2012 ) was a Chilean Catholic priest and liberation theologian .

Life

An encounter with Alberto Hurtado prompted Arroyo to turn to Christianity, with Hurtado accompanying him as spiritual leader. Arroyo joined the Jesuits on December 8, 1951 and was ordained a priest on August 6, 1963. He studied Catholic theology , philosophy and economics. He graduated from the Catholic University of Chile with a degree in agricultural engineering and did his doctorate in economics in Leuven .

Arroyo worked as a student chaplain and had numerous contacts with progressive priestly movements, trade union and agricultural workers groups. He was a co-founder of the Christians for Socialism and a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK), at whose 4th All-Christian Peace Assembly in 1978 in Prague he worked. After Augusto Pinochet's military coup in 1973, Arroyo went into exile for more than fifteen years in Paris , where he conducted research as an associate professor at the Sorbonne and helped found the Center de Recherche sur l'Amerique Latine et le Tiers Monde (CETRAL).

Arroyo, together with other liberation theologians, overcame the reformism propagated in the Christian Democratic conservative parties in Latin America. He emerged with numerous publications in which, in particular, environmentally friendly agriculture is advertised, which should give the mass of the landless population an economic perspective. He saw biotechnology and sustainable soil management in a close connection.

Gonzalo Arroyo was a professor at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Faculty of Economics) of the Jesuit Order in Santiago de Chile , of which he was one of the founders.

Works

In German language

• with Silvio Gomes de Almeida, Jean von der Weid: Transnational Societies and Agriculture in Latin America. Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-88122-359-2 , (= ladok - development perspectives 27).

In spanish language

• with Gerardo Aceituno, Ruth Rama, Fernando Rello: Agricultura y alimentos en América Latina. El poder de las transnacionales. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana, ISBN 968-83733-3-8 .
• Biotecnología. Una salida para la crisis agroalimentaria. Plaza y Janes, ISBN 968-85621-1-4 .
• The biotecnología y the problema alimentario en México. Plaza y Valdes, ISBN 968-85619-8-3 .
• The desarrollo de la biotecnología. Desafíos para la agricultura y la agroindustria. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco, ISBN 968-84039-6-2 .
• Golpe de estado en Chile. Ediciones Sigueme, ISBN 84-301-0578-6 .
• The perdida de la autosuficiencia alimentaria y the eye de la ganadería en México. Plaza y Valdes, ISBN 968-85621-0-6 .
• with Joaquin Silva, Fernando Verdugo: Por los caminos de América. Desafíos socio-culturales a la nueva evangelización. Ediciones Paulinas, ISBN 956-256-068-6 .

In French

• Agro-industry and developpement. Le cas du Mexique. CETRAL, ISBN 2-7384-0033-7 .
• Les firmes transnationales et l'agriculture en Amerique Latine. Anthropos, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, ISBN 2-7157-1006-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Muere destacado sacerdote jesuita Gonzalo Arroyo ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Cambio21, May 21, 2012. Accessed September 19, 2015.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} UAH noticias: 40 años de Sacerdocio (Spanish) Retrieved May 12, 2010
3. ↑ List of lecturers at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) Retrieved May 12, 2010  
4. ^ Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat in Die Zeit Retrieved on May 1, 2011