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John Lennon, Oscar Romero) all seem to get shot. Are the pacii sts losers? As
a competitive person, I don't like this idea. My 1988 visit to Central America
was i lled with hope. I came again after the defeat of people's movements in
both El Salvador and Nicaragua in 1991. h e tide had turned, and I won-
dered how the spirit of the people's movements—so exuberant just three years
before—would fare after the American-funded victories in their domestic
struggles. h en, in 2005, after 14 years of globalization, it was clear—there
was only one game in town. Sure, Romero lives…and Jesus lives. And half the
world is trying to live, too…on that two bucks a day. As a Christian, I like to
see religion function as a liberator rather than an opiate. Perhaps that's why
I am so enamored with Liberation h eology in Central America, and why
travel here impacts my worldview so powerfully.
Refocusing on the troubadours, I heard them sing, “It's not easy to see
God in the child who cleans the windshields at a San Salvador intersection…
but we must.”
