Guadalupe Carney

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Guadalupe Carney , baptized as James Francis Carney Hanley (born October 28, 1924 Chicago ; † 1983 in Olancho , Honduras), was a Catholic priest , Jesuit , philosopher and theologian who was known in Honduras through his theses on Christianity , persecuted and desaparecido has been.

Life

Carney came to Honduras as a Jesuit priest in 1962 and lived with the poor in the rural communities. Participation in the struggles of the poor made the bourgeois gringo a revolutionary. Just as he wanted to change Honduras, he changed his name to Guadelupe. In 1973 he was naturalized in Honduras. On November 17, 1979 he was expelled from Honduras and the Policarpio Juan Paz García government revoked Carney's naturalization.

In an open letter he asked not to be left alone in his struggle to regain Honduran citizenship. Although he was murdered in Olancho in 1983, there is a widespread concern to regain the memory of him so that he may live on in the struggles of the people of Honduras.

“To be a Christian meant to be a revolutionary. If a Honduran is not a revolutionary, he is not a Christian. "

- final words from Guadalupe Carney: “Metamorfosis de un revolucionario” ( Transformation of a Revolutionary)

Carney is one of the 184 people who disappeared in Honduras between 1980 and 1984. The small guerrilla he accompanied was tracked down in 1983 by Honduran special forces with the help of US helicopters . In this guerrilla was David Arturo Baez Cruz (born December 19, 1950 in Managua) aka Capitán Enrique Eduardo Saenz Herrera, a former Green Beret .

Relatives of the two Americans, Carney and Baez Cruz, reported that they were repeatedly hindered in their efforts to investigate the cases by Ambassador John Negroponte . US officials handed Carney's goblet and stole from the Honduran Army to Carney's relatives, but his fate was not reported.

In April 1987, Florencio Caballero, a former death squad member, stated that the Honduran army captured 96 cross-border workers in 1983 and killed 70 of them, including Carney who was accompanying them.

Miguel Ángel Pavón Salazar, chairman of the Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Honduras (CODEH) and José Isaias Vilorio, a former sergeant in the Honduran army believed to have been a member of a death squad, were to testify before the Inter-American Human Rights Court to testify about the methods used by death squads in Honduras, but were murdered in January 1988.

In January 2003 human remains were found in the Honduran-Nicaraguan border area, which could be attributed to Father Guadelupe.

Publications

  • Solo díganme magnifying glass. Autobiography.
  • Así es la iglesia. Excerpts from the autobiography.
  • Metamorfosis de un revolucionario. Dirección Nacional Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (Honduras), 1983.
  • Honduras. Memoirs of a Priest. Translated from the Spanish by Jürgen Brakel. Theory and Practice Publishing House, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-921866-56-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ honduraslaboral.org, CARTA ABIERTA A LAS ORGANIZACIONES POPULARES DE HONDURAS
  2. ^ The New York Times , October 8, 1999, Rebel War Comes Back to Haunt Honduran Base
  3. ^ The New York Review of Books , Sep. 20, 2001, Our Man in Honduras
  4. ↑ Los Angeles Times , April 19, 2001, What Did Negroponte Hide and When Did He Hide It? ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.commondreams.org
  5. ^ The New York Times , May 2, 1987, HONDURAS ARMY LINKED TO DEATH OF 200 CIVILIANS
  6. ^ The New York Times , June 5, 1988, TESTIFYING TO TORTURE p. 2
  7. ↑ The New York Times , January 19, 1988, In Human Rights Court, Honduras Is First to Face Death Squad Trial
  8. ↑ The New York Times , January 30, 2003, Americas: Honduras: Remains May Be American Priest's
  9. ↑ J. Guadalupe Carney, Eric, Marcela Carías, Sólo díganme Lupe: autobiografía del Padre Guadalupe Carney, sacerdote de los pobres , Editorial Guaymuras, 2004, 563 p., P. 492
personal data
SURNAME Carney, Guadalupe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carney Hanley, James Francis; Padre Guadalupe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic priest, Jesuit, philosopher, theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 1983
Place of death Olancho , Honduras