Tres lugares para una crítica : el campo, la catedral y la Universidad en El Salvador (1977-1989)

Abstract

The Cold War was the best proposal of the countries involved to stop explicit war; however, violence continued in the countries of the global periphery through dictatorships, particularly in Latin America, where the response was guerrillas. In this global context, so-called “liberation theology” emerged. Due to the colonial state of El Salvador at the time, this country experienced one of the most iconic processes of the region. In this article, the author emphasizes in a single argument the ideas that defined the transition from the “promotion of justice” to the “preferential option for the poor”, by analyzing the actions of three priests during the last years before the fall of the Soviet bloc. The author proposes a hypothesis regarding the indirect link between the death of a team of Jesuits —academics who subscribed to liberation theology— and the fall of the Soviet bloc, with the consequent triumph of the antagonistic Alliance.