"It Was Easier to Talk About Another War Than Our Own”

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]I think in inside the Catholic church in South America, we have this very rightwing trend that is dominant and some of the priests in the high school were like that.

[00:00:14]>> But we have also the freedom theology and we had priests like that in the high school too. I I was not able to tell those days who was from what tendency.

[00:00:28]But now in perspective I can see that I I was exposed to both. And in my my social social science teachers were usually the ones that for example um they make us make debates about topics.

[00:00:46]I remember um the Iraq war. So we had to study different perspective and then make a debate with different viewpoints.

[00:00:56]But being honest related to our armed conflict, it was not the one of the main topics. I think dominant narrative could be seen in the fact that it was not one of the main topics. It was like a little bit hidden in terms of the dimension of what was happening in our country. It was easier to talk about another war rather than our own conflict.