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When the Past Feels Present: Teaching Argentina’s Official Story in the U.S.

On March 24, 2026, as Argentinians prepare to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’etat that initiated the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional—the country’s bloodiest and most violent dictatorship in its history—I want to revisit La historia oficial [The Official Story] (1985), the award-winning film directed by Luis Puenzo which exposes the . . .

Interview with Jodi M. Savage

Jodi M. Savage (right) and her godmother Sister Christine (left). Tell us about your relationship to writing.I started out writing poetry and short stories. In college, I felt I needed to do something “practical,” so I became an attorney. But I still longed to be a writer. In my late twenties, I . . .

Lessons from Honduras: Storytelling the Truths We Cannot Name

Dany Díaz Mejía writing in his village, Nueva Esperanza, Honduras Two weeks before the November 30, 2025 elections took place in Honduras, I traveled to Washington, DC for the largest Catholic social justice gathering in the U.S. I had been invited by the Ignatian Solidarity Network to give a talk about how . . .

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