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...Paul has led the way, denouncing economic injustice and insisting on the rights of the downtrodden. Taking their lead from the Pontiff, American bishops are issuing strong moral stands on their nation's nuclear arms strategy, the U.S. economic system and the evil of abortion. Bishops in Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and other lands have boldly denounced human rights abuses by their governments. In South Africa, white Archbishop Denis Hurley will go on trial in February because of his public protests against police brutality toward blacks in Namibia...
What distinguishes liberation theology from the mainstream of church thinking is its strong emphasis on social change in the process of spiritual improvement. As Father Jon Sobrino, a Jesuit liberation thinker living in El Salvador, puts it, the aim of liberation theology in Latin America is to "give a new form to a now wretched reality." In analyzing that social reality, some liberation theologians make heavy use of left-wing social science, and in that sense, writes Sobrino, "the influence of Marx on the conception of theological understanding is evident...
...confident President Jose Napoleon Duarte strode into his country's Supreme Court in San Salvador early last Monday to try to convince the tribunal that his partial veto of a proposed election law was constitutional. Court President Francisco Jose Guerrero escorted Duarte, flanked by three of his chief ministers, up four flights of steps to the court chambers. As it happened, the court elevator was not working because hours earlier a bomb, planted by leftist guerrillas, had left sections of San Salvador, the capital, without power. The scene aptly symbolized the twin crises faced by Duarte. On the one hand...
...legal dispute arises from a bill adopted last December by El Salvador's 60-seat Constituent Assembly, which is controlled by the right-wing opposition to Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. The bill would permit opposition parties to appear separately on the ballot for legislative and municipal elections, originally scheduled for March 17, but for their votes to be tallied as a coalition. The effect would be to increase the overall amount of government campaign funds that the rightists could receive, as well as to give them greater vote-getting power. According to a local political analyst, "It could mean...
Duarte responded by vetoing what he considered to be objectionable parts of the bill. However, El Salvador's 13-month-old constitution does not make an allowance for such line-item vetoes by the chief executive. Thus the assembly ignored Duarte's action and went ahead and published the original version of the bill. As the country waited for the court's ruling, which could come within days, on Duarte's claim that he has the right of selective veto, the elections were postponed until March...