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The Meaning of Easter from El Salvador, that country

Maria C. is a journalist, who just returned from El Salvador on a fellowship. Here is her post (with my edits) from an email she sent me: I live in a country, el salvador (remember) where 10 corpses turn up every day and they're not just gangbangers, (we all know that loss weighs less on the soul)400 women are killed every year by men that promised to love them and yet I was woken up this morning to some lady with a megaphone asking God to forgive us, el pueblo,for murdering a man nearly 2000 years ago. What?! Last Friday I wound up by mistake downtown in front of the cathedral where they stuck Monsenor Oscar Romero's remains in the basement. A bunch of ladies wearing ridiculously frilly lacy veils, white,prayed as some pig faced evangelical preacher told them that the King and Queen of Spain are in town...but you know what...he intoned...all the powerful people (men, he said) could come here and it wouldn't make a difference. it won't change the ...