Alvaro Ramazzini (Guatemala)
Who is:
Bishop of San Marcos in Guatemala. Born to Italian parents in Guatemala.
He is chairman of the bishops' Secretariat of Central America.
Where it operates:
The diocese where his pastoral place is situated on a plateau and is one of the poorest areas of Guatemala.
In 2005, Guatemala has descended on the disaster of the flooding, with mudslides, landslides, epidemics. Whole towns have disappeared beneath the mud.
Activities:
For years at the forefront in defending the rights of landless laborers. This has made it repeatedly subjected to intimidation and death threats. Even in recent months has been repeatedly attacked by the government and accused of fomenting peasant revolt. But he is committed to fight poverty and injustice, in defense of indigenous peoples for land reform.
It 'came in Caldogno in 2005 and at the Community Center has shown, with a broad view of problems of its people of the plateau of San Marcos, his experience and his record.
The GAM - Caldogno NGO co-financing projects intervened intervention triggered by the S. Cajetan of Vicenza.
