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Recorded at the United Presbyterian Women's National Meeting, Purdue
University, July 17-22, 1985. Marta Benavides (born 1943) is a feminist
religious leader from El Salvador. She is a theologian, ordained American
Baptist minister, permaculturist, educator, and artist. After the military
coup in El Salvador in 1979 and the outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War, she
became the leader of the Ecumenical Committee for Humanitarian Aid, a group
sponsored by the Archbishop Óscar Romero. From 1982 to 1992 she lived in
exile in the United States and Mexico.