La Palabra en el Bosque The Word in the Woods
Description
During the early 1970s, hundreds of impoverished people living in remote Morazán, El Salvador, decided to emulate the early Christian communities. Inspired by liberation theology, they worked the land together, studied the Bible, and built villages based on solidarity. But as their numbers grew into the thousands, they came to be seen as a threat by the Salvadoran government. By the late '70s the faithful organized to resist the repressive tactics of the National Guard, and during the '80s they fought what would become a 12-year civil war as the military engaged in scorched-earth operations against them. Emphasizing the utopian aspects of Christian base communities, La Palabra en el Bosque (The Word in the Woods) examines these events through the narratives of surviving witnesses.
Runtime
56 min
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Geography
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Date of Publication
[2012], c2012
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