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...opening speech at the conference, had denounced social injustice but also warned the bishops not to politicize the church, and to eschew violent reform−a delicate balance that discouraged many progressives by its ambiguity. A source of more distress was Colombian Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, the CELAM secretary general who reportedly had received Vatican approval to stack the group with conservatives to avoid a reprise of the 1968 CELAM II in Medellin, Colombia. There, a liberal minority pushed through strong documents that inspired the Marxist-tinged "theology of liberation." Since the Puebla statement does not condemn liberation...
...Vatican, liberation theology went too far, as did Medellin, where, it decided, a liberal minority had steamrollered its ideas past an apathetic majority. In 1972 Vatican officials favored the CELAM board's selection of auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo from the staunchly conservative Colombian hierarchy as secretary-general, or top staff executive. López Trujillo is a firm, shrewd anti-Marxist who once declared, "I don't believe that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently...
...Trujillo and the top Vatican planner for CELAM, Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, began advance work to avoid Me-dellin-type surprises. The theme would be "evangelization," hardly a radical buzzword, and the site would be Puebla, the most traditional and pious city in Mexico. There would be fewer advisers, and they would be more conservative. Limitations would be placed on the participation of members of religious orders, who are often more militant than diocesan priests...
...liberation camp accuses López Trujillo and the Vatican of stacking the 174-member roster of bishop delegates at Puebla with conservatives. However, 139 of them were elected by the hierarchies in their own countries. As a result, Brazil's 37 votes will be largely progressive. Moderates and conservatives predominate in the important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero...
...longtime protégé of late Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer was both a brilliant and ruthless politician. He kept his country at peace for twelve years. He launched a huge building program and virtually invented Dominican tourism, now a $90 million industry. But he permitted blatant corruption, and in recent years he allowed the economy, already suffering from a sharp drop in sugar prices, to falter. Of the country's 1.4 million workers, 20% are unemployed...