Word: hernan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Literacy Through Penance. A Marxist revolution can hardly represent the Christian ideal. Just as obviously, inertia is no answer to Catholicism's chal lenges today. A sensible middle way would see the church lending its weight to nonviolent reform-as Chilean Theo logian Hernan Larrain puts it, "Christianizing the inevitable revolution." In a few areas, Catholicism has had the time and talent to do so. In Venezuela, for example, the clergy has helped cut illiteracy from 50% to 12% in the past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates...
...weeks before, Paz's enemies, led by Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the country's tin miners, had withdrawn from the elections, urging all voters to abstain or cast blank ballots in protest. Two days before the vote, Lechín and Hernan Siles Zuazo, onetime President (1956-60) and a former Paz supporter, went on a hunger strike hoping to marshal public opinion against the President. But on voting day, abstentions and blank votes ran only 20% or so, and the hunger strikers soon started eating again...
...Bolivia, President Hernan Siles Zuazo declared a complete political amnesty in preparation for the May 22 general elections, and a regiment of National Police took the occasion to revolt in La Paz, fought a futile, five-hour battle with loyal troops that left 16 killed, 106 wounded...