"LA PALABRA EN EL BOSQUE": DOCUMENTAL Y ANÁLISIS HISTÓRICO.

The article presents information on the historical documentary entitled "La Palabra en el Bosque" ("The Word in the Forest"), directed by Jeffrey Gould and Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, within the context of understanding the importance of oral history and collective memory. The documentary focuses on followers of liberation theology, known in Spanish as the Comunidades Cristianas de Base, in El Salvador during the first years of the 1970s. Both the documentary and the article stress the importance of historical analysis as part of forming a cultural identity.