Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaaweahia e te whakairoiro, ka roa te okiokinga a Bono mai i te rekoata i te marama o Hurae, ka haere ki Nicaragua me El Salvador me tana wahine, a Alison Hewson, kia kite i te mamae o nga kaiahuwhenua i whakawakia e nga pakanga torangapu me te whakauru a te ope taua a US. I a rāua e mahi ana i reira ki te Central American Mission Partners (CAMP), he whakahaere mana tangata me te whanaketanga ohaoha. I El Salvador i tutaki rātau ki ngā mema o te Comité de Madres Monsignor Romero (COMADRES: Komiti o ngā whaea Monsignor Romero), he whakahaere o ngā wāhine i mauheretia ai a rātau tamariki e te kāwanatanga o El Salvador i te wā o te Pakanga o te Ao.
He Pakanga Whenua nā te mea i whakahe rātau ki te kāwanatanga hōia i te mana. I tetahi wa i te haerenga, i pupuhihia a Bono, Alison, me tetahi mema o CAMP e nga hoia a te kawanatanga i a ratou e haere ana ki te kawe awhina ki tetahi roopu kaiahuwhenua. He whakatupato nga pupuhi, a, e ai ki te kaituhi a John Luerssen, na te kaupapa i mohio ai a Bono "kaore ratou i aro ki ta raatau whakaekenga ka taea e raatau te patu i a raatau mena ka kaha ratou".