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...Whether this is a change with mass, as well as Mass, repercussions isn't clear yet. It will certainly affect every Catholic churchgoer every Sunday, although admittedly not anywhere as drastically as would the ultimate liberal bugbear, a return to Latin exlusively. And by definition the changes are in tone rather than content. Yet to some the tone is of a record running backwards, towards a linguistic stiltedness that will discourage rather than invite Catholics to think about what they are saying. One of the most prominent switches is from the exchange between priest and congregation: "The Lord be with...
...image in much of Latin America has taken quite a beating this year, with Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez and his counterpart in Bolivia, Evo Morales, engaging in a heated war of words with their neighbor to the north. But one particular U.S. institution already notorious throughout the continent is increasingly feeling itself under...
...officially called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the U.S. military-run training ground for Latin American strongmen and dictators was for years known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The Spanish-language army facility based in Fort Benning, Georgia, was responsible for helping to educate such military men as Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega, the late Argentine junta leader imprisoned for human rights abuses Leopoldo Galtieri, and Salvadoran right-wing militia leader Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson. Despite adding a "human rights" element to its curriculum in recent years, the school has engendered...
...Marine, Bourgeios lived as a Maryknoll priest in South America's poorest country during the dictatorship of SOA graduate Hugo Banzer in the 1970s. Bourgeois hopes to make more governments see that WHINSEC has become an anachronism, a relic of the U.S.'s big-stick foreign policy in Latin America. "A school that has no students," he says, "will have to shut down...
...failure to cut off funding only reinforces the critics' determination to attack WHINSEC by choking off demand. "The fact that U.S. lawmakers have not been able to provide a solution makes getting Latin American countries to refuse to send troops even more important," said Lesley Gill, anthropology professor at American University and author of School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. "It could be the only real hope of closing the school for good." And with it, activists like Bourgeois say, a dark chapter in U.S.-Latin American relations...