The “preferential option for the poor,” the once-radical idea that God identifies with the oppressed and impoverished, has been mainstreamed as Catholic theological doctrine.
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Latin America
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Morales gooit het roer om
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Mark Engler quoted in a Hungarian article on Latin American populism.
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Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor. (Translation into Arabic by ahewar.org)
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What are the lessons from the Salvadoran civil war for Iraq?
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A review of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border.
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With a White House that uses El Salvador as a model for Iraq, we still have much to learn from the assassination of Archbishop Romero twenty-five years ago.
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The White House's failure to push forward its latest "free trade" deal is a victory for working people throughout the Americas.
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Defying the Bush Administration's neoconservative worldview, El Salvador's historic Truth Commission Report has once again become a living document.
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To truly promote democracy in Latin America, the U.S. must redefine its national interests in the region.