Volume 28, Number 9 · May 28, 1981
The Sword and Cross
By Alan Riding
Cry of the People
by Penny Lernoux
Doubleday, 535 pp., $12.95
Mystic of Liberation
by Teofilo Cabestrero, translated by Donald D. Walsh
Orbis Books, 200 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Archbishop Romero: Martyr of Salvador
by Plácido Erdozaín, translated by John McFadden, by Ruth Warner
Orbis Books, 98 pp., $4.95 (paper)
The Challenge of Basic Christian Communities
edited by Sergio Torres, edited by John Eagleson
Orbis Books, 352 pp., $9.95 (paper)
After the 1959 Cuban revolution, guerrilla groups appeared across Latin America, their ranks crowded with urban middle-class student radicals anxious to emulate Fidel Castro. But, as Ernesto Che Guevara learned to his cost, they had neither support nor organization among the peasants, workers, and slum-dwellers in whose name they were acting. And, gradually, they were wiped out—in Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia,, Brazil, Uruguay, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and, finally, Argentina.
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