Word: comunidades
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...muestra de independencia ha sido bien recibida por muchos en la comunidad latina como se?al de que Mart?nez promover? intereses m?s all? de su compromiso con los cubanos de Miami. La Florida, a pesar de ser considerada la base de la conservadora comunidad Cubana, tiene quiz?s la comunidad latina m?s diversa de la naci?n, incluso mejicanos, puertorrique?os, centro y sur americanos que a menudo se encuentran en desacuerdo con las pol?ticas de inmigraci?n y educaci?n del presidente. M?s que cualquier otro pol?tico en Estados Unidos hoy, ?Mart?nez tiene la oportunidad de hablar por todos los hispanos?, dice Dar?o Moreno...
Ironically, the Cubans themselves are a divided community. La Comunidad, as the older Cubans are called, fears the Marielitos will tarnish the reputation they have labored so hard to build in South Florida. "I tell my employees that if a black comes here asking for money, give it to him," says one prosperous Cuban gas station owner in Little Havana. "If an Anglo comes to rob us, give it to him. But if a Marielito comes here, kill him. I will pay for everything." The older Cubans also find themselves in a cultural and political split with the younger ones...
Winning such acceptance from Latin America's bishops has been no easy achievement. Often, says Bishop Anibal Maricevich Fleitas of Concepcidn, Paraguay, the comunidades have seemed a threat to more traditional Catholics because they want the bishops to be "brothers and servants of the poor." This stance, he adds, also makes them "like pepper thrown in the eyes of the government." In fact, scores or perhaps hundreds of comunidad leaders, both priests and laymen, have been imprisoned, tortured and even killed because of their "conscientization," awakening a sense of grievance, among poor people...
Even so, many priests and bishops in Brazil balked when a lay comunidad member in 1976 announced that "the days when the priest was the main one" were over. Others in Latin American Christendom are likely to be troubled by a declaration at weekly Mass by Volta Redonda's French priest Jacques Duquesne that "faith should not be seen as the burden of the Cross, but rather as faith in a better world." Such apparent doctrinal distortions may have been what prompted Pope John Paul II during his Mexican trip to urge the Latin American clergy to be "priests...