D'Escoto on Ronald Reagan: 'crimes in the name of democracy.'.(World Notes)(Editorial)

Catholic New Times | July 4, 2004| | Copyright

Editor's note: Fr. Miguel D'Escoto was Nicaragua's foreign minister under the Sandinista government in the 1980s. CNT covered Nicaragua quite extensively in those years. A Maryknoll priest, D'Escoto lived through the worst oppression of the corrupt Somoza years before the Sandinista revolution in 1979.

One of the most prophetic voices for gospel nonviolence, the American-born Nicaraguan begged Archbishop Obando y Bravo in the late 1970s to lead the people into the streets armed only with rosaries in their hands and prayers on their lips. In this way they would share ...

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