Rebel priest in the time of tyrants : mission to Haiti, Ecuador and Chile

ISBN: 9781771860390 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781771860505 (ePub)
ISBN: 9781771860512 (pdf)
Physical Description: print 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Publisher: Montréal, Québec : Baraka Books, [2015]

Lacaille, Claude 1939- (Author). Roberts, Casey, 1953- (Added Author).

Summary: Claude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like other advocates of Liberation Theology, he saw it as his duty to join the resistance, particularly against Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the dictators were not alone, as they often enjoyed the support of the Vatican, sometimes tacit, but then brazenly open under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He began writing this book in Chile where thousands shed blood simply because they defended victims of dictatorship, opposed rapacious policies and economic doctrines, consoled the downtrodden, and breathed new hope and courage into a people who desperately needed it.