Word: lima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope John Paul II hewed to a delicately balanced, catechistic course. In homily after homily he warned his audiences against the seductive appeal of liberation theology, which in its more radical forms filters the Christian message through a Marxist- influenced social analysis of the class struggle. In a teeming Lima slum last week, the Pontiff declared that the church seeks "authentic liberation" through moral teaching that will set in motion forces to bring about change. But, he said, the church has a limited role in solving "concrete problems." If that was less than progressive priests and nuns would have liked...
Every year the haunting stone ruins on the steep eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes are pummeled by up to 230 in. of rain. Getting to the site, 300 miles north of Lima, requires a five-day trudge through some of the highest tropical jungle in South America, a haven for jaguars, spectacled bears and giant anteaters...
...week's end John Paul landed in Peru, the birthplace of liberation theology. Speaking in Lima, he attacked radicals who seek to undercut the Catholic hierarchy, and urged priests and nuns to forsake "passing ideologies." After four days in Peru, John Paul was scheduled to touch down in Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, before flying to Rome this week...
...Rabassa, 62, who has spent the past two decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...
...Says Club Director Jota Martins: "We don't think our prices are high. They may be so for the average Brazilian, but the average Brazilian does not come here." Nonetheless, travelers can find some buys in South American countries. At La Costa Verde restaurant near Lima, a leisurely seafood lunch with drinks and wine still costs $14 a diner, the same as in 1980. Popular Brazilian agate ashtrays that went for $8.60 four years ago now cost less than $6, and the $1.50 that it takes to buy a bottle of good Argentine vodka is half of last year...