Can a Catholic Support “Absolute Savagery”?
El Salvador’s president has used “absolute savagery” to successfully crush that country’s gangs. Is it worth the cost?
El Salvador’s president has used “absolute savagery” to successfully crush that country’s gangs. Is it worth the cost?
Every summer I take a group of high school students on a mission trip to El Salvador. Our hosts there come from the landowning class, and over lunch a woman I’ll call Rosa told me about her husband’s family. “They are very wealthy landowners,” she said. “They own a lot of land and run … Read more
Nearly two decades have passed since El Salvador’s civil war ended, but the 1980 assassination of a Roman Catholic archbishop may prove highly influential when voters elect a new president next spring. For many Salvadorans over 30, the disappearance of loved ones and the chatter of machine guns remain far more real than the 1992 … Read more