Liberation Theology is first and foremost a lyric, prophetic cry of denunciation. Its proponents have often contrasted their theological agenda with that of the North, claiming that the challenge of ‘God- lessness’ is not philosophical atheism, but the denial of God that takes place when humanity, God’s image and likeness, is defaced or eradicated. It is worth remembering that the 500-year memory of Liberation Theology, its ‘anteayer’ [day before yesterday], includes the sixteenth-century arguments about the human status of the native Indians, affirmed in Pope Paul III’s bull Sublimus Dei in 1537, and about the justifiability of their enslavement, debated by Bartolom´ e de las Casas and Juan Sep´ulveda in Valladolid in 1550–1551. From the moment of its ‘discovery’, the Latin American continent has presented itself as a problematic ‘state of exception’.