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LATIN AMERICA THEOLOGICAL GROUP CALLS FOR NEW GLOBAL CENTERAction Further Polarizes Global South Bishops and PrimatesNews AnalysisBy David W. VirtueIn a move that can only be viewed as further polarizing the Anglican Communion and the realignment of the theological plates holding it together, some 26 primates and bishops of Central and Latin America called for the setting up of a Global Center to honor what they called "Anglicanism's middle way."The statement was signed by the primates of Brazil, Mexico and Central America, six other Brazilian bishops, the majority of the bishops of Central America, all the bishops of Mexico, plus Western Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.Those who did not sign it include the Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables and the bishops of Bolivia, Chile, Nthn. Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay."We have had nothing whatsoever to do with the organization of this although they might make it look as if we do," Venables wrote VirtueOnline.Bishop Bill Godfrey of Peru has assured Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables that neither he, nor Bishop Miguel Tamayo of Cuba signed the Panama letter and all Bishops present were aware of that and accepted - more available