• Listen to this segment

• Listen to the entire program

The Assassination of Oscar Romero

Back in the day on March 24th, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was assassinated. Thirty years ago, in the midst of a bloody civil war, Romero gave a homily a day before his death that was broadcast throughout the Central American nation. In it, he implored the rank and file members of the national army to stop killing their fellow peasants. His voice spoke with courage despite repeated death threats, as he said; “No solider is obliged to obey an order that is contrary to the will of God.” Falling on deaf ears, Romero’s plea to the soldiers themselves immediately put him within the assassin’s scope. The next day, as Romero gave a homily at an evening mass, a single bullet pierced his heart killing him within minutes. As this anniversary illustrates, the killers could not silence the memory of his example of faith and justice that thrives to this very day.

Archbishop Oscar Romero may not be “famous” enough for recently revamped conservative textbooks in Texas, but his story is just fine for the Subversive Historian.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history