Assassination of Oscar Romero

[dissident]

The anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero is this week (24th). Romero was an outspoken critic of a brutal government almost entirely implanted and sustained by the US government. The government of El Salvador was effectively a military junta with an extensive network of death squads with the aim of killing as many people as possible, more or less (although they claimed to be fighting a guerrilla war with Nicaraguan, Cuban, and of course Soviet backed rebels). The US staged several elections in El Salvador in the 80s, and then used the pretence of democracy to continue their funding of the regime and its murder machines. Amidst all this, Romero was a voice for the poor and oppressed. He deplored the violence of the government. He demanded the liberation of the people! I know he wasn't a revolutionary in the typical use of the term, but the phrase seems fitting: YOU CAN KILL A REVOLUTIONARY, BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE REVOLUTION! We must continue our struggle against the oppression of violence and capitalism, and through our struggle martyrs such as Oscar Romero will live on!

[bombeverything]

I am glad someone mentioned this. I agree.

R.I.P

[EneME]

Yes....he's mourned every year in my home obviously. Although, as leftists, most of us aren't religious...this is one instance where the church condemned the atrocities committed by the military and paid with their lives. For me...he'll always be a source of inspiration, and because the bullet that murdered him during mass was caused by the training from the U$A; it is one of the MANY reasons I'll be a leftist til the day I die.

"The world of the poor teaches us that liberation will arrive only when the poor are not simply on the receiving end of hand-outs from governments or from the churches, but when they themselves are the masters and protagonists of their own struggle for liberation."
-Monseñor Oscar Romero