At first, a rumor circulated that he had suffered a stroke.
The Argentine Nobel Peace Prize 1980 and human rights defender Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (90 years old) was hospitalized for an illness, but is stable, under observation, reported on Sunday the entity he founded, the Service of Peace and Justice (SERPAJ ).
“The CT scan went well. Doctors rule out that it is a CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident). They will carry out a (magnetic) resonance ”, said SERPAJ on social networks, referring to Pérez Esquivel’s hospitalization in the tourist resort of Mar del Plata.
Architect, sculptor, painter and activist of humanitarian causes, he was awarded the Nobel for his fight in defense of democracy and his militancy for the appearance alive of thousands of disappeared during the dictatorship (1976-83), in whose jails he was imprisoned .
“Adolfo slept well. They took his blood pressure, measured glucose and gave him medication. It is stable. It will remain under observation for 24 hours to see its evolution ”, it was added in the report.
At first, a rumor circulated that he had suffered a stroke. The SERPAJ rejected it and promised to give more reports on its evolution.
Born in the popular neighborhood of San Telmo in Buenos Aires, from a very young age, based on his Christian beliefs, he participated in movements for non-violence and in favor of the most vulnerable sectors.
As a result of his demands for the crimes of the dictatorship, he spent 14 months in prison and another under probation. It was in this condition that he was awarded the Nobel, a fact that caused confusion and irritation in the generals of the regime, condemned years later by a systematic plan to eliminate and disappear opponents.
“Institutionalized violence, misery and oppression enshrine a social order that benefits a few: the rich who are getting richer at the expense of the poor who are getting poorer,” he said upon receiving the Nobel.
Pérez Esquivel is the son of a Spanish immigrant father from Galicia and a mother of indigenous origin from the province of Corrientes. He declares himself an admirer of Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King.
In addition to his prison, there was also an assassination attempt against Pérez Esquivel during the dictatorship. “Two days after (the Nobel was announced), we were going with my son Leonardo to SERPAJ, and some people advanced weapons in hand to kill us. My son sped up the car and luckily a taxi came and got in the way, it saved our lives, “he said about it.
In a recent interview, he repudiated the world growth of the extreme right: “It is worrying. They are totalitarian movements or philonazi groups. It has to do first with the lack of memory ”.
Pérez Esquivel is one of the five Argentines who received a Nobel Prize. (I)
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