Oscar Romero: School of the Americans

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a bishop from the Catholic Church in the Salvador. He turned out to be the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador after Luis Chavez in February of 1977. Bishop Romero was born in August 15 of 1917 and dies March 24 of 1980 in the Salvador. During his youth, he got accepted into a minor seminary in San Miguel when he was thirteen, then he was also got accepted to the national seminary in San Salvador but he got the opportunity to finish his studies at the Gregorian University in Rome where he became a Licentiate in Theology. Then Romero, stay over in Italy to finish his doctoral degree in Theology. Romero went back to El Salvador and saw the economic and social situation that the Salvadorians were going through. The government during this time was very cruel with the Salvadorians and was Marxism’s government. On his visit to Europe Romero receive an honorary doctorate, he met Pope John Paul II and expressed his feelings of what was happening in his country. Romero argued that it was very problematic to be in favor of the Salvadoran government because there is a lot of terror and assassinations. Romero was a big defendant for the right of the Salvadorans; Romero for the poor people was their voice in which he speaks for them.

The people who had the power were the Marxism government, the National Guard of El Salvador and the wealthy people in El Salvador. Since his main purpose being an Archbishop of San Salvador was to take care of anyone who needs it his help, also give the Salvadorians the faith and the believe that they needed. During February of 1977, the people who had the power was many of the Salvadorians were protesting against the government because they wanted “A true election, a free elect...

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...here were so against Romero those at the end disrespecting the law of God they still kill him in March 24 of 1980. Many of the Salvadorans decide not to listen to Romero in which between 1980 and 1989 more than 60,000 Salvadorans still got killed. But as good fighters for freedom and respect still goes on.

In conclusion, in my opinion, Romero was and still is a great example for many of us even though you might not be from El Salvador. He is part of many of those who fought for our human rights and that are still a big example to look at. Until todays date we need to be very grateful of these amazing hero actions, which helped the needed people not mattering what or what will happen with his life. The best way to give back all that effort from this hero is by being better people every day and that the discrimination and the injustice can be concluding very soon.