Adolfo perez esquivel biography books

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel: —: Artist, activist.

Though recognized as a sculptor, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel wanted to bring about peace and prosperity for the poor.

He was honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work to ease human-rights abuses in South America. Pérez Esquivel has devoted much of his adult life to championing fair conditions for the continent's campesinos, or landless peasant farmers, and he gained some measure of notoriety in his country for criticizing a brutal military regime that kidnapped, tortured, and killed thousands during the s.

Pérez Esquivel was born on November 26, , in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father had emigrated from Spain.

His mother died when he was young, and because of his father's travel schedule as a coffee sales agent, he was sent to boarding schools run by Roman Catholic religious orders. He was a devout Roman Catholic from an early age, and as