People participate in a March 23, 2019, procession to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the murder of St. Oscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Salvadoran saint was shot and killed March 24, 1980, as he celebrated Mass. (CNS/Reuters/Jose Cabezas)
As El Salvador President Nayib Bukele s administration faces more and more international criticism for alleged authoritarianism and for putting the country s young democracy in danger, a movement of young activists is seeking inspiration from St. Óscar Romero in denouncing injustice and opening new ways toward social change.
Generación Romero (Generation Romero, in Spanish) was created in 2015 as a network of faith communities, social movements and groups of young activists who identify with the prophetic voice of Romero, the archbishop of the capital of San Salvador, who was murdered in 1980.