The Salvation Brokers: Conservative Evangelicals in Central America
UnpublishedJanuary/February
1984
Volume:
18
Number:
1
Article
Marc Edelman & Jayne Hutchcroft
"It is the International Monetary Fund which is governing us now," Oscar Arias, the secretary gen- eral of Costa Rica's ruling social democratic party, admitted last July. Virtually bankrupt since 1981, Costa Rica has in the past year renegotiated its massive $4 billion public debt, one of the the highest per capita debts in the world.
Deborah Huntington
Santa Ana, El Salvador's second city, is home to the nation's ultraconservative coffee oligarchy; Pentecostalism thrives among the poor. In 1980 FMLN guerrilla forces surprised the oligarchy by briefly holding the city against the Salvadorean army.
NACLA At The New School If you live in the New York met- ropolitan region and you want to learn more about Central America, now's your chance. NACLA will be teaching a course on "Central America: A Region in Crisis" at the New School for Social Re- search during the Spring semes- ter, 1984, which begins on Febru- ary 9.
Carol Wise
A report recently released by Amnesty International entitled "Peru: Torture and Extra-judicial Executions," has served to con- firm allegations by the Lima press and human rights organizations in Peru concerning the government's use of unchecked violence in at- tempting to eradicate the Maoist guerrilla movement, "Sendero Luminoso." Confining its investi- gation to complaints filed within the southern Andean departments (states) where the fighting has been the heaviest, Amnesty has concluded that the nature and ex- tent of human rights abuse occur- ring in the context of the guerrilla war has reached proportions un- 40 precedented in Peru.
Enrique Dominguez
For most of Central America, the 20-year per- iod framed by the Cuban and Nicaraguan revo- lutions was a time of political turmoil, of powerful mass movements and guerrilla insurgencies. These were dramatic decades for the evangelicals too, even though they remained on the margin of these political developments.
Deborah Huntington
It is the small, dusty town of Ocotal, Nicara- gua, near the Honduran border, in May 1983. Nicaragua is under attack from invading exiles and the atmosphere is electric.
Grenadian Hospital Bombed With "Surgical Care" WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-The De- fense Department said today that at least 12 people were killed when a United States Navy plane bombed a civilian hospital in the early hours of the invasion of Gre- nada last week.
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte
In an impressive show of dis- pleasure with the military govern- ment which holds the country in a dictatorial grip, an estimated 400,000 Uruguayans-almost half the population of the nation's cap- ital, Montevideo-marched in pro- test on November 27. The march was the latest in es- calating civilian opposition which began to gather momentum last June on the tenth anniversary of the military coup and has united political parties across the spec- trum and the population across gender and generation.