The Liberation Theologians in South America, including the infamous Marxist “Red Bishop” of Freire’s own Recife, Brazil, Dom Hélder Câmara (whom Freire defends by name in a footnote in The Politics of Education), are clearly among his chief influences. Incidentally, as it happens, Câmara had at least two other remarkably famous proteges who were profoundly influenced by his take on Liberation Theology: the Argentinian who would later become Pope Francis and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum and political protege of Henry Kissinger, Professor Klaus Schwab.
