by Jim McIntosh | Mar 23, 2010 | Bolivia, Peru |
Every year on this date, Bolivians celebrate the Day of the Sea (el Día del Mar) in which they remember the loss of the department of Litoral to Chile in the War of the Pacific. The loss of this state meant that Bolivia lost its access to the sea and to this day...
by Jim McIntosh | Nov 9, 2007 | Franciscan, Observations, Status, Torture |
I am over in Chile for a Franciscan justice and peace conference. Yesterday, we took a break from the sessions to visit Santiago. Our first stop was Villa Grimaldi, what was in the early 1970s a rural farm house that was used by the military dictatorship of Pinochet...
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