Julia Esquivel

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Julia Esquivel (1994)

Julia Esquivel Velásquez (born May 3, 1930 in San Marcos , Guatemala ; † July 19, 2019 ) was a Guatemalan poet and human rights activist .

Life

Esquivel studied at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala , the Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano in Costa Rica and the Ecumenical Institute Bossey in Switzerland . She was now active as a teacher and pastoral social worker. Furthermore, she worked as a poet and human rights activist for the indigenous population. As a result, she was subjected to repression and had to go into exile in 1980. Esquivel now lived in Mexico and Nicaragua , and for a total of eight years in Switzerland among the sisters of the Grandchamp community .

In 1994 she received from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bern , the honorary doctorate awarded.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ESM mourns Julia Esquivel
  2. ^ Jorge Ovalle: Fallce la reconocida poetisa guatemalteca Julia Esquivel. In: Prensa Libre. July 19, 2019, accessed January 15, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. University of Bern ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.theol.unibe.ch