Word: guayana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warning against placing too much importance on the material side of liberation, to the neglect of its spiritual aspects. Still, the Pope declared repeatedly that the struggle for social justice is an essential part of the church's work. At a complex of giant metalworks and mines in Ciudad Guayana, 300,000 people, many of them workers, greeted John Paul warmly when he said, "How long will the men of the Third World have to support unjustly the primacy of economic processes over inviolable human rights?" In Quito, Ecuador, he called for the "gradual disappearance of the intolerable abyss" between...