Hiber conteris biography

Hiber Conteris v. Uruguay, Communication No. 139/1983 (17 July 1985), U.N. Doc. Supp. No. 40 (A/40/40) at 196 (1985)

Submitted by: Ilda Thomas on behalf of her brother, Hiber Conteris
Alleged victim: Hiber Conteris
State party concerned: Uruguay
Date of communication: 16 March 1983 (date of initial submission)
Date of decision on admissibility: 30 March 1984

The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

Meeting on 17 July 1985,

Having concluded its consideration of Communication No. 139/1983 submitted to the Committee by Ilda Thomas under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author of the communication and by the State party concerned;

adopts the following:

Views under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol

1.1 The author of the communication (initial letter dated 16 March 1983 and further letters dated 12 May and 8 November 1983 and 12 March, 14 June and 1 July 1985) is Ilda Thomas, the alleged victim's sister, at present residing in the United States of America. She is legally represented. She submits the communication on behalf of her brother, Hiber Conteris, a Uruguayan national born on 23 September 1933, who was detained at Libertad Prison in Uruguay until 10 March 1985.

1.2 The author stated that Hiber Conteris worked as pastor for the Methodist Church from 1955 to 1965 and that for many years he was a staff writer for Marcha, a weekly magazine banned in 1974. He was a professor of the History of Ideas at the National University of Uruguay's School of Law and Social Sciences from 1968 to 1972. In the late 1960s Mr. Conteris was a member of the Movement for National Liberation (Tupamaros), but the author claims that he completely disassociated himself from them in 1970 as political and economic tensions rose and the

Andrés Thomas Conteris` family background is from North and South America. His uncle, Hiber Conteris, was a political prisoner for eight years under the military dictatorship in Uruguay beginning in 1976. Andrés organized a worldwide campaign on behalf of him and worked closely with organizations such as Amnesty International, Americas Watch, and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

He graduated with honors with a B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in 1984 focusing on Gandhian nonviolence, human rights advocacy, and intentional faith-based communities of justice and peace. He was awarded the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to pursue the topic “Theology of Resistance”. He has an M.A. in religious studies from the Howard University.

In 1985, Marcos Conteris, first cousin of Andrés, was gunned down by U.S.-backed contra rebels in Nicaragua. This led Andrés to dedicate much of his life to bring change to U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He participated in a nonviolent direct action in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa in 1987 and the following year he initiated and organized an international nonviolent protest at U.S. embassies in Guatemala City and Tegucigalpa as well as the headquarters of the Pentagon´s Joint Task Force Bravo at the Palmerola Airbase in Honduras.

Andrés lived and worked in Honduras from 1994-99 and worked as a Human Rights Advocate. He served as an active member of the Commission of Guarantors, assigned to monitor compliance of an accord signed between the Honduran President and leaders of indigenous peoples. For his efforts, Earlham College, honored him in 1997 with the Sesquicentennial Alumni Peacemaker Award.

He is a Co-Producer of “Hidden in Plain Sight” (2003), an award-winning feature-length documentary film narrated by Martin Sheen that looks at U.S. Policy toward Latin America through the prism of the School of the Americas, the controversial military school that trains Latin Americ

Conteris, Hiber. "On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life". Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture, edited by Saul Sosnowski and Louise B. Popkin, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854-013

Conteris, H. (1992). On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life. In S. Sosnowski & L. Popkin (Ed.), Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture (pp. 190-195). New York, USA: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854-013

Conteris, H. 1992. On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life. In: Sosnowski, S. and Popkin, L. ed. Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture. New York, USA: Duke University Press, pp. 190-195. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854-013

Conteris, Hiber. "On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life" In Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture edited by Saul Sosnowski and Louise B. Popkin, 190-195. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 1992. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854-013

Conteris H. On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life. In: Sosnowski S, Popkin L (ed.) Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture. New York, USA: Duke University Press; 1992. p.190-195. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854-013

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Uruguayan writer, playwright, and literary critic (1933–2020)

Hiber Conteris (Paysandú, 23 September 1933 – 2 June 2020) was a Uruguayan writer, playwright, and literary critic.

He wrote extensively in the pages of Marcha and, as a Methodist, he was very influential in the Protestant world.

Works

• 1959: Enterrar a los muertos
• 1960: Este otro lado del telón
• 1963: Cono Sur
• 1963: El socavón
• 1963: El desvío
• 1965: Villa Anastacio
• 1966: Virginia en Flashback
• 1968: El nadador, Roman
• 1969: El asesinato de Malcolm X
• 1986: El Intruso
• 1986: El diez por ciento de tu vida
• 1987: La Diana en el Crepúsculo
• 1987: Información sobre la Ruta 1
• 1988: La cifra anónima
• 1996: ¿Qué desea cenar?
• 1996: El breve verano de Nefertiti
• 1998: El cielo puede esperar
• 1998: Round Trip – Viaje regresivo
• 1999: Mi largo adiós a Raymond Chandler
• 2001: Rastros de ceniza
• 2002: Oscura memoria del sur
• 2005: Onetti en el espejo
• 2008: El Intruso

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