Word: peruvian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez (Orbis, 1973). A Peruvian priest's synthesis of Christ and Marx, this book is a bible for a generation of Third World theorists...
...Clemency C. Coggins '68, teaching assistant in Fine Arts and a research fellow at the Peabody Museum, who will speak on pre-hispanic art history; Marguala I. Arenas, professor of Latin American literature at the American International College, who will discuss the role of the Indian in Ecuadoriaon and Peruvian literature; and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly of Rutgers University, Duke University and Colegie de Mexico, who will speak on women's work and social change in Mexican border industries. Other panelists will discuss economic and energy policies in Latin America...
...proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned for ten years the hunting of vicuna and the sale of products made from the animal; subsequently, Chile and Argentina joined in the La Paz Convention. In 1973, 51 nations voted to place the vicuña on the endangered-species list and bar it from the commercial market...
Conservationist Felipe Benavides president of the Peruvian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, warns that the decision will ensure the species' doom. But government officials, notably Antonio Brack, who worked with the World Wildlife Fund until he was tapped to head the Special Project for the Rational Use of the Vicuña, deny that the beast is threatened. Brack insists that the population is increasing so rapidly (by 23% a year) that the culling should not have any harmful long-range effect...
...CELAM in Medellin, Colombia, when the bishops overwhelmingly denounced the "institutionalized violence" of various Latin American governments. Since then, many supporters of the comunidades have enthusiastically adopted the language and goals of the "theology of liberation," a peculiar blend of Marxian economic analysis and Gospel imperatives, best articulated by Peruvian Priest Gustavo Gutierrez in the early 1970s. Observes Volta Redonda Bishop Waldyr Calheiros de Novais: "The comunidades are the theology of liberation put into practice...