Word: centroamericana
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...interviews this week with officials at Harvard, and in the U.S. and El Salvador, a picture has evolved that links the University to Jesuits Segundo Montes and Ignacio Martin-Baro. The pair, who were highly placed scholars within the embattled Jesuit academy Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas in San Salvador (UCA), worked at promoting their cause within Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and a Harvard-based international scholars program...
...approves of the church's defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many local Jesuits disagree that any kind of Marxism is their goal. Says Father Jon Sobrino, who teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañnas in San Salvador: "We Jesuits have not chosen an ideology. The basic problem is reality itself. When you see corpses or children starving, what makes you react is reality, not some abstract idea...
Still plagued by poverty, reaction, disease, despotism and ignorance, the five republics have more often emulated Carrera than Morazán; but they have not forgotten Morazán's dream of La Gran Patria Centroamericana. This week, on the centenary of Morazán's death, their representatives were scheduled to converge on San José to consider, warily and with varying degrees of enthusiasm, the latest proposal to unite as one nation...
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