Seventeen Bishops

On their return from the Second Inter-Church Conference on Base Communities in Vitoria, Brazil, on August 12, 1976, seventeen bishops from various Latin American countries (Including four "chicanos" from the United States) were imprisoned in Riombamba in Ecuador, causing one of them to exclaim: "If this can happen to us, who are well known, what will happen to peasants, workers or natives when they are arrested?"

The Church in Latin America, 1492-1992, Enrique D. Dussel