Jaume Obrador Soler
Jaume Obrador Soler (1940 – 8 August 2025) was a Spanish missionary, politician and social activist.
Life and career
Soler was ordained a priest in 1966. From 1966 to 1972, he worked as a missionary in Burundi. He carried out his activity in Gitongo and Bugenyuzi.[1] Returning to Mallorca, he became secularized in 1973.[2] He joined the JOC (Joventut Obrera Cristiana) and participated in the neighbourhood movement of Palma through the neighbourhood commissions, in hiding, which later became anti-capitalist neighbourhood platforms. Later he participated in the promotion of the first neighbourhood associations (1973–1974). He was a member of the Communist Workers' Circles and, later, of the OEC (Communist Left Organization). In 1979, he was elected councillor of the Palma City Council by the PSM (Socialist Party of Mallorca). In 1981, he left office and participated in the constitution of Esquerra Mallorquina (1981–1983). In 1995, he was the founder of "Neighbours Without Borders" (VSF), made up of people linked to the Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Palma, of which he was the president.[3]
Soler died on 8 August 2025.[4]
Awards and honours
In 2018, Soler was awarded the Rosa Bueno Prize by Palma City Council for his promotion of citizen participation as a tool for social transformation.[5]
References
- ^ "Mallorcans in Burundi" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Redacción (8 August 2025). "Muere Jaume Obrador, exregidor del PSM en Cort". Mallorcadiario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
- ^ "Mallorca – Veïns Sense Fronteres i la solidaritat internacional – Per un món més just i solidari - Literatura catalana moderna - Illes". Blocs de VilaWeb (in Catalan). 5 December 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
- ^ Barra, Gemma (8 August 2025). "Fallece Jaume Obrador Soler, figura histórica del activismo vecinal en Palma". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
- ^ Duran, Lourdes (6 April 2018). "Jaume Obrador y Castellers de Mallorca, premios Rosa Bueno". Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2025.