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Well-known liberation theologian Fr. Miguel D'Escoto seeks to recover Christianity's tradition of nonviolence while considering imperialism's impact on Nicaragua. Referencing Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Tolstoy, he criticizes George Bush's warmongering and manipulation of religion for political ends. Miguel D'Escoto was Nicaragua's foreign minister in the Sandinista government in the 1980s and is currently the President of the United Nations General Assembly.

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A U.S.-born Maryknoll missionary priest, D'Escoto became a leader in Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution, serving as foreign minister from 1979 to 1990. He was also president of the 63d session of the United Nations (2008-2009). This collection of D'Escoto's writings and speeches from the past three decades is divided according to political and religious themes, reflecting a life based on moral conscience and dedicated to social justice. Shortly after entering Nicaragua in the late Seventies, D'Escoto began writing in opposition to Anastasio Somoza's dictatorial regime. Once in power, the Sandinistas confronted a leviathan of resistance from Ronald Reagan's government, which mounted convoluted subterfuges of suppression through the Iran-Contra affair. Though D'Escoto was vituperative when countering this ideological and military subversion, his articles on religious topics concentrate on the love one must have for one's enemies and warnings of the meretricious manipulations that can be made of religion. Liberation theology was the sustaining moral axis for him and his fellow clergy in their support of the Sandinistas. Recommended for collections with broad holdings on Latin America, particularly Central America.-Edward A. Riedinger, Ohio State Univ. Lib. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Father Miguel D'Escoto is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest who was born and studied in the United States. He was a key figure in the founding of the Maryknoll imprint, Orbis Books, in 1970, and was an official with the World Council of Churches. An adherent of liberation theology, he was Nicaragua's Foreign Minister in the Sandinista government. Cultural Director of UNESCO in Latin America and the Caribbean