"Habla Jaime": una pastoral para la comunicación y la defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Neuquén (1980-1990)

Abstract

In the following work we will analyzed the figure of the bishop of the province of Neuquén (Argentina), Jaime de Nevares (1961-1991), whose influence was very important in the field of Human Rights at regional and national level, through various visibility strategies and social communication. We will observe how through the creation of a pastoral for communication, De Nevares consolidated a social bond with the inhabitants of Neuquén beyond belonging to the Catholic Church and to the limits of its diocese. We will analyze how the editorial of the magazine “Comunidad”, belonging to the bishopric of Neuquén, called “Habla Jaime”, sought to make visible in first person the identification of “Don Jaime” with the defense of Human Rights, to take beyond the parishioner Catholic and of the diocese of Neuquén. That action concentrated the fundamental principles of respect for human integrity and the teachings that on the subject were detached from the renewal of the Catholic Church through the Second Vatican Council and the Latin American Episcopal Conferences. To do this, we will carry out a historical analysis of bishop De Nevares, such as “Don Jaime”, within the media that he himself set in motion, to make visible and communicate his position and action in the defense of Human Rights in full military dictatorship (1973- 1983), through a speech in publishers whose first-person title emphasized the authority of his word.