---
title: "Luis Escala - a sad loss - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Luis Escala - a sad loss: Luis Escala - a sad loss from IVU News Oct 2000 by Francisco Martin Luis Escala, of Ecuador. the IVU Regional Secretary for Latin America died on May 1, 2000."
url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5703-news-oct2000-luis.html"
date: "2026-11-06T00:12:16+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Luis Escala - a sad loss

![Luis Escala - a sad loss](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/news-oct2000-luis.png).
 **Luis Escala - a sad loss** *from IVU News Oct 2000*

**by Francisco Martin**

Luis Escala, of Ecuador. the IVU Regional Secretary for Latin America died on May 1, 2000.

The sad news of Luis's death has been a total surprise and a great loss to the vegetarian and animal rights
 movement in Ecuador and in Latin America. I spoke with him on a number of occasions and knew how determined he was to fight for his ideals. A few months ago. I received a video showing some of his activities for the cause.

Luis was a dedicated campaigner for the animals through his own group, Trato Etico de los Animales, as well as member of AVE (Spanish Vegan Society) and Regional Secretary of IVU. Ironically, it seems that he was accompanying a family member undergoing medical treatment when he contracted a virulent form of meningitis which by the time it was correctly diagnosed was beyond all efforts to save him. He was just 38 years old.

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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