Perez Esquivel

American  

[per-uhz es-kuh-vel, pe-res es-kee-vel] / ˈpɛr əz ˌɛs kəˈvɛl, ˈpɛ rɛs ˌɛs kiˈvɛl /

noun

1. Adolfo born 1931, Argentine sculptor and human rights activist: Nobel Prize 1980.

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Example Sentences

Morris, who is Assange’s former attorney, wrote that “leading figures, from former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin to Nobel Prize winners, such as human-rights campaigner Adolfo Perez Esquivel, have been calling for Julian’s freedom.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2021

“There were bishops who were accomplices, but not Bergoglio,” Perez Esquivel says.

From Time • Mar. 14, 2013

“Perhaps he didn’t have the courage of other priests, but he never collaborated with the dictatorship,” Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for documenting the junta’s atrocities, said Thursday.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2013

He can’t be accused of that,” Perez Esquivel told Radio de la Red in Buenos Aires.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2013

—The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina for his non-violent advocacy of human rights.

From State of the Union Address by Carter, Jimmy