Carriquiry Guzmán

Prof. Lecour Guzmán M. Carriquiry was born in Montevideo (Uruguay). He took his degree in law and the social sciences and for thirty-five years he has worked for the Holy See and is currently Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity. He took part in the General Conferences of the Latin America Episcopate of 1979, 1992 and 2007. He is the author of Una scommessa per l'America Latina. Memoria e destino storico di un continente (Ed. Le Lettere, 2003).