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Copyright of Páginas de la Educación is the property of Universidad Catolica del Uruguay Damaso Antonio Larranaga and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

El Salvador, a small and poor country in the heart of Central America, experienced during the 1980s a war without enemy. Both parties and all the dead were Salvadoran. The weaponry and money were administered by foreign powers, just as the ideological motives. But while both parties fought over the country, and the «fourteen families» of landowners abandoned it direction Miami, the rest of the population, full of fear and anxiety, fought to bear a situation they did not understand and where they could not possibly win something. It was necessary at that moment to invent a country, a reason, and most of all a common enemy in order to survive. This led to a common delusion which lasted more than twelve years and which even today generates an extreme polarization of Salvadoran society. The Peace Agreements of 1992 at that moment seemed to present a big opportunity to change the history of inequality and social injustice in El Salvador. However, they were disregarded by the government. With seventy five thousand dead and thousands of missing persons, El Salvador pretends to live on as if nothing had happened or as if the nightmare which it was so difficult to overcome had only been a bad dream. «God was afraid» is an attempt to say that which, in my opinion, has not been said about the Salvadoran conflict: the way in which this war was experienced by those who had nothing to do with it, but who became accomplices in the instant they opted for the stronger party, in order to avoid being immersed in an escalation of violence which flagellates the Salvadoran people until today. I am presenting here the first chapters of my second novel «God was afraid» which is going to be published by F&G Editors, Guatemala. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Revista Cultura y Religión is the property of Miguel Angel Mansilla Aguero and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The worldwide use of nutritional suplements in human diet has not currently been demonstrated to be enough, just to fill the requirements of essentially substances for life such as minerals, vitamins or proteins. Among minerals, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, chromium and cobalt are considered as essential. They can be found in plants and thereby taken in human diet. Due to the high mineral content, Petiveria alliacea L. (Cuban "anamú") and Mussa paradisíaca L. (banana) may be used as a source of the above micro or oligoelements. From dry extracts of "anamú" leaves and banana pseudostalks, the microbiological and metallic contaminants were assayed. These indexes were compared to the limits, previously established for such natural products in the country. For drying, raw materials were desiccated at 70°C and reduced to 130 µm (particle seize). Moreover, some other physic-chemical such as moisture, ashes and minimal concentration of the microelements were determined, including organoleptic properties. The products were finally studied for stability for six months. The mineral composition of anamú was: Ca 17 mg/g, Co 0,16 mg/g, Fe 0,21 mg/g, Mg 0,78 mg/g, Mn 0,16 mg/g, Se 0,02 mg/g, Zn 0,1mg/g, Na 0,51 mg/g, K 23,83 mg/g; for banana was Ca: 191 mg/g, Zn: 21,9 mg/g, Cu: 3,4 mg/g, K: 297 mg/g, Mg: 77 mg/g, Mn: 35 mg/g y Fe: 127 mg/g. According to our results, both products were succesfully registered by the Institute of Hygiene and Food Nutrition . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]