Word: ands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I think he had the unique ability of making people fall in love with his ideas. And that was what made him such an attractive, engaging person. He would come up to you and embrace you."
Former director of LASPAU John Mullaney remembers Martin-Baro's enthusiasm for LASPAU. "When Padre Nacho came here he said that he admired LASPAU and the Fulbright Exchange as the best foreign policy program of the United States in El Salvador."
"He loved children," continues Mullaney, who now works at Harvard's Institute for International Development. "You could just see his whole face change. 'What are we doing to them?' he would say and shake his head."
Associates say Montes was a more reserved person. "The Jesuits have a phrase that would describe him--'contemplative in action.' He was a very spiritual man as well as an academic," Mullaney says. "But he was always out in the fields getting his hands dirty with the displaced people, the...
Although their friends fiercely affirm that none of the priests were politicians, the nature of their academic studies and UCA's prominent efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Salvadoran war made them highly political targets of the Salvadoran right wing.