Politics & Power Quote by Raul Julia

Raul Julia’s line reads almost like an apology for caring in public, which is exactly what gives it bite. He starts with “a very deep care,” a phrase that risks sounding generic, then immediately narrows it: “Latin America” and “what was going on in El Salvador.” That pivot matters. It’s not celebrity compassion as a vibe; it’s compassion with a zip code, tethered to a specific crisis that American audiences in the 1980s often encountered as background noise or partisan shorthand.

Julia, a Puerto Rican actor who made his career in U.S. film and theater, is also implicitly negotiating credibility. “Of course” does quiet work here: it frames concern for El Salvador as the obvious extension of caring about the region, not a fashionable cause he picked up on a press tour. The subtext is defensive and strategic. As a performer in a media ecosystem quick to dismiss political speech from entertainers as posturing, he’s staking out moral seriousness without performing righteousness.

Context sharpens the stakes. The Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) was soaked in atrocity, with U.S. funding and rhetoric shaping how it was discussed domestically. Julia’s wording stays plain, almost cautious, but that restraint is part of the intent: to normalize attention, to insist that events in El Salvador belong in the same mental frame as U.S. politics and pop culture. It’s a small sentence built to widen the circle of who feels responsible.