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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in News Releases by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. The University gf Dayton News Release JOURNALIST GIVES TALK AT UD ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CHURCH

DAYTON, Ohio, February 23, 1988--As part of a Midwest speaking tour, investigative

reporter and author Penny Lernoux will give two talks on the and Latin

America at the University of Dayton on Thursday, March 3.

Lernoux will conduct a forum entitled "The Church and U.S. Corporations in Latin

America: Clashing Interests" at 3:30 p.m. in Kennedy Union 331. At 8 p.m., she will

discuss "The Catholic Church: Where It's Going and What That Means for Latin America" in

UD's Immaculate Conception Chapel. Sponsored by UD's Center for International Studies,

both are free and open to the public. For information, call 229-3514.

Lernoux, a journalist with 25 years of reporting experience in Latin America, is best

known for her work on the continent's political and economic developments and the

international politics of Catholicism. Her book Cry of the People describes the clash

between the Latin American Catholic Church and U.S. corporate interests. In Banks We Trust

documents crime in the international banking community and the impact of the foreign debt

on Latin American economies. In her most recent book, People of God, she describes the

struggle between John Paul's papacy and the increasingly independent local churches. It

also documents the parallelism in U.S. and Vatican policies in the Third World.

Born in Los Angeles, Lernoux went to Latin America in 1961 to work for the U.S.

Information Agency in Bogota, Colombia, and , Brazil. In 1964 she joined the

Copley News Service, and for a decade she reported from , Venezuela; Buenos Aires,

Brazil; and Bogota, Colombia. Since 1975, she has worked as a free-lance writer for

numerous publications, including Harper's, Newsweek, the Miami Herald and The Nation, for

which she is the Latin American correspondent. She is also the Latin American affairs writer for the National Catholic Reporter.

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