Priest Under Fire Padre David Rodríguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador’s Revolutionary Movement PETER M. SÁNCHEZ
“An excellent contribution to understanding the role of the Catholic Church in El Salvador during its most turbulent period.”—Journal of Church and State • Tells the story of how one priest joined the largest guerilla organization in El Salvador, the FPL (Popular Liberation Forces), to help his people and his country. • Provides much-needed insight into both the Salvadoran civil war and the Catholic Church-influenced grassroots political movements, showing that they continue to inform Latin America today. P E T E R M . S Á N C H E Z is professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Panama Lost?: U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal.
BIOGRAPHY/ LATIN AMERICA December 2015 328 pp. | 6 x 9 23 b/w photos |1 map | 1 table ISBN 978-0-8130-6119-1 Cloth $44.95
Contact: Samantha Zaboski SZ@upress.ufl.edu 352.448.1057 UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA | UPRESS.UFL.EDU
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