Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

[1] Pere Casaldàliga, is a priest and practitioner of Liberation Theology, born in Balserany (Barcelona) on 16^th February 1928. He turned the Prelate of São Félix do Araguaia (Mato Grosso), where he exercised as bishop, into a trench in the line of defence of the excluded, at a time when many opponents of the dictatorship ended up imprisoned, tortured or murdered. He faced military repression in Brazil and hired gunmen in the pay of the landowners. He escaped death in 1976, when the bullet intended for him took the life of the Jesuit father João Bosco Burnier. Pere Casaldàliga continues to accompany the people in the transformations imposed by globalisation and he has been a tireless warrior in the fight against the oppression of the debt wherever that oppression is experienced.