Lernoux, Penny. Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America -- The Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy. New York: Penguin Books, 1982. 535 pages.

Penny Lernoux was a practicing Catholic and prize-winning journalist who lived in Bogota until shortly before her death from lung cancer in October, 1989 at the age of 49. She moved to Latin America in 1962, first working for the U.S. Information Agency and then as a bureau chief and correspondent for Copley News Service. In 1974 she began free-lancing; her work has appeared in Newsweek, The Nation, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, and the National Catholic Reporter.

"Cry of the People" won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Award, Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Award, and was cited by the NYT Book Review as one of the most notable nonfiction books of 1980. The emphasis is on the struggle for human rights in Latin America in the context of U.S. counterinsurgency and development policy, multinational corporations, and the CIA. A microcosm of this struggle is seen in conflict between progressive Catholics and reactionary cults such as Tradition, Family, and Property, which was linked with the CIA in the overthrow of Goulart in Brazil in 1964 and Allende in Chile in 1973. As they say in Latin America, "The CIA goes to church but not to pray."
ISBN 0-14-006047-2

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