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Born in Martinique in 1913, Cesaire grew up with the French prose classics and the poetry of Victor Hugo. His family had middle-class aspirations and so emphasized the value of French culture that Creole never became a viable means of expression for Cesaire. Sent to study in Paris at...
Nicaragua was not the only Central American country in which the Roman Catholic Church was under attack last week. In neighboring El Salvador, the nation's two highest-ranking prelates became targets of a campaign of intimidation by death squads. In a terse communique delivered to a radio station...
As one sign of its commitment to those goals, the Administration last week sent off Special Envoy Richard Stone on a twelve-day, ten-nation "listening" tour of Central America. On his first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos...
No other country so embodies the suffering of Central America as El Salvador, whose very name in Spanish invokes the Saviour. Three years of civil war have fragmented the church there into three camps. Some priests support the U.S.-backed regime, others back the leftist insurgents, while the majority are...
> War-torn El Salvador poses the greatest security problems for the Pope. The government has turned down the Vatican's call for a cease-fire while John Paul is in the country. As it is, the Pope will have to make peace within the church. Conservative supporters of the...