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Even by Central American standards, El Salvador is a vastly overpopulated, poverty-ridden feudal society. The elite 1.9% of the population, which owns 57.5% of the land, sells cash crops abroad while at home hunger and malnutrition are endemic. The oligarchy's prosperity depends upon plentiful cheap labor from landless, job-hungry campesinos, and, fearing bloody rebellion, it will do almost anything to prevent the peasantry from organizing. To eliminate political dissent, a sweeping new law decrees prison for anyone who perturbs the "tranquillity or security of the country" or "the stability of public values...
...people are left with one powerful ally who is not intimidated: Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames, 60, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador. Typically, high-ranking Latin churchmen mute their protests; some are merely props of their regimes. Though many priests and some bishops have made brave stands, Romero, since he took office early last year, has been the most outspoken archbishop in Latin America...
...riddled with the type of bullets used by the police. The right-wing "White Warriors' Union," a pro-government vigilante group with ties to business, killed another priest to avenge an assassination by left-wing terrorists. Next, the White Warriors vowed to execute the 47 Jesuits in El Salvador unless they left the country in 30 days. The Jesuits stayed, and so far none have been murdered, but it is clear that they, indeed all active Catholics, face harassment, torture and death at the hands of the vigilantes, the national police and the dreaded 50,000-member "Orden" militia...
...Trujillo and his allies in the hierarchy have the support of the Vatican, including Pope Paul, who fears repression of the church from Latin America's current regimes if Catholics too militantly press the case for a new social and economic order. In El Salvador, for example, two priests were killed and others were threatened with assassination by government-allied right-wing terrorists for espousing redistribution of property. According to Latin American experts in the Vatican, the Pontiff welcomed the zeal for social change that followed Medellin, but now feels that the emphasis has become too political. He wants...
...conference will look at three problems Chicanos face: immigration, acculturation and the role of women. Organizers stress that the symposium is open to all. One of its primary purposes is to "let people outside our culture know about us," Salvador Barajas '81, one of the organizers, said Tuesday...