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Thursday, July 7th, 2011Nicaragua Arguably the most powerful display of the political influence of liberation theology took place in Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. It also represents the zenith of the movement as a force for change in Latin America, which quickly ended and signaled its immediate decline. The direct involvement of Catholic clergy in a socialist [...]
American Foreign Policy: Time for a Change? Part VII
Thursday, June 30th, 2011Nation Building and Spreading Democracy One of the most effective and oft used arguments for American intervention abroad is that the United States, or any other democratic state, can enable autocratic or failed regimes to change and adopt democratic institutions. The long run effect of such involvement, so the argument goes, is a more stable [...]
Liberation Theology: What Happened in Latin America? Part VI
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Argentina The intellectual and theological base had been laid in Rome and Medellin, and the messages were being relayed to the intended audience, but the real test of the theories had yet to be applied in the real world. The founding fathers of the Latin American liberation movement in the Church emphasized the importance of [...]
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