Monsignor, why does there continue to be so much poverty in El Salvador?
There is a document that we wrote when John Paul II visited us in 1996, a short but controversial document. We asked ourselves, what country is the Pope coming to visit, and we responded that El Salvador is a country that signed for peace, but that doesn’t have the daily experience of peace. And to support our position we pointed to poverty, unemployment, and the insecurity of our citizens. But you are spiritual leaders. Are you not co-responsible that peace is not found in daily life? I believe that several wounds from the war have not healed because they have not accepted the plan that John Paul II proposed in 1997 to reconcile the country. He planted a new concept within the church that is the purification of memory. But, here in the country they do not want to revoke the Amnesty Law even though there is a resolution from the Organization of American States (OAS) that demands it be repealed. The Pope said something else: “Truth and justice are bases of forgiveness”, and he wrote it
