Blase Bonpane
Blase Anthony Bonpane (April 24, 1929 – April 8, 2019) was the director of the Office of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, which he co-founded with his wife Theresa in 1983. Throughout his life, he worked on human rights issues as well as the identification of illegal and immoral aspects of United States government policy.
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Bonpane in 2010 | |
| Born | April 24, 1929 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | April 8, 2019 (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California Irvine |
| Occupation(s) | Human rights and peace activist |
| Organization | Office of the Americas |
Bonpane served as a Maryknoll priest in Guatemala and was assigned by the Cardinal of Central America as National Advisor to Centro Capacitacion Social, a center for university and high school students working in the field with indigenous people on matters of health, literacy and labor organization. He was expelled from that country in 1967 in the midst of a revolution.
In 2006, The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation awarded Bonpane the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award.
In June 2018, Bonpane announced he would stop broadcasting World Focus.