<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp">http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp</a></span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><h2 class="title" style="font-size: 23px; margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp" title="Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war'" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the
'dirty war'</a></h2><div class="meta" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; "><div class="submitted" style="width: 620px; padding-top: 0px; "><span class="authors"><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/horacio-verbitsky" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; ">HORACIO VERBITSKY</a></span> <span class="timestamp"><abbr class="published" title="2005-07-28T00:00:00+01:00">27 July 2005</abbr></span></div><div class="terms"><strong style="margin-right: 1em; ">Subjects:</strong><ul class="links inline" style="list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; "><li class="taxonomy_term_2589 first last" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; display: inline; "><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/editorial_tags/latin_america_caribbean" rel="tag" title="" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">latin america</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="about-author" style="margin-bottom: 20px; clear: both; "><div class="title" style="font-weight: bold; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 15px; ">About the author</div><div class="content" style="margin-top: 0px; ">Horacio Verbitsky is a leading Argentinean <a href="http://www.cpj.org/awards01/verbitsky.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">investigative journalist</a>. He was given an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to
Protect Journalists in 2001. Among his books is The Silence: from Paulo VI to Bergoglio, the secret links between the Church and the Navy Mechanics School (<a href="http://www.tematika.com/articulo/detalleArticulo.jsp?idArticulo=401149" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">2005</a>) and The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior (New Press, <a href="http://www.thenewpress.com/books/flight.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">2005</a>).</div></div><div class="content entry-content"><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; "><em>Argentina between 1976 and 1983 was wracked by a “<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/argentina.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">dirty war</a>” in which successive military regimes hunted down, tortured and “disappeared” tens of thousands of citizens. The process had begun when
Argentina’s already febrile politics started to split open in the mid-1970s. The military seized power in a coup from <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29/newsid_2857000/2857121.stm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 97, 191); text-decoration: none; ">Isabelita Peron</a>’s government, in the wake of an armed insurgency by <em>Montoneros</em> guerrillas.</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; "><em>The dictatorship that followed consigned thousands of Argentineans into military detention. Most were tortured; a few were released, many were eventually murdered. These “disappeared” numbered in all around 30,000.</em></p><div><em><br></em></div></div></span><div style="padding-left:5px;margin:5px 0px 5px 5px;border-left:#1010ff 2px solid;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> C. G. Estabrook
<carl@newsfromneptune.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Mueth <paulmueth@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net List" <Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net>; sf-core <sf-core@yahoogroups.com>; ocCUpy <occupyCU@lists.chambana.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 13, 2013 4:12:18 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [sf-core] New bishop of Rome<br></font><br>
Pope Ratzinger's response to liberation theology was complex - as those who read the documents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when he was head of it can see. The press has preferred a simpler narrative.<br> <br>And those who read what he actually wrote as bishop of Rome will find a critique of neoliberalism and a call for the redistribution of wealth, well to the left of any mainstream US (and EU) politician.<br><br>E.g., from Caritas in Veritate, his major social encyclical (2009): - "The global market has stimulated first and foremost, on the part of rich countries, a search for areas in which to outsource production at low cost with a view to reducing the prices of many goods, increasing purchasing power and thus accelerating the rate of development in terms of greater availability of consumer goods for the domestic market. Consequently, the market has prompted new forms of competition between States as they seek to attract
foreign businesses to set up production centres, by means of a variety of instruments, including favourable fiscal regimes and deregulation of the labour market. These processes have led to a downsizing of social security systems as the price to be paid for seeking greater competitive advantage in the global market, with consequent grave danger for the rights of workers, for fundamental human rights and for the solidarity associated with the traditional forms of the social State." <br><br>Chomsky has written frequesntly of the US "war against the church," notably "... the murder of the Jesuit intellectuals [in November 1989]. There has been much debate about who deserves credit for the fall of the Berlin wall, but there is none about the responsibility for the brutal demolition of the attempt to revive the church of the Gospels [i.e., liberation theology]. Washington's School of the Americas, famous for its training of Latin American killers, proudly
announced as one of its 'talking points' that liberation theology was 'defeated with the assistance of the US army' -- given a helping hand, to be sure by the Vatican, using the gentler means of expulsion and suppression" <<a href="http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm" target="_blank">http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm</a>>. <br><br>--CGE<br><br>On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Paul Mueth <<a ymailto="mailto:paulmueth@yahoo.com" href="mailto:paulmueth@yahoo.com">paulmueth@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Yea, RATzinger was good on discourse as well, whilst repressing liberation theologians and activists, cooperating with Casey's CIA. <br>> This pope was an opponent of LT probably all thru the dirty war. . . <br>> <br>> Roy Bourgeois has been excommunicated BTW<br>> <br>> Sent from my iPhone 3GS, It doesn't chat!<br>> <br>> On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "C. G. Estabrook" <<a
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