The 31 anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Romero is of a peculiar sense, as Barack Obama, President of the United States intends to visit his grave. This event raises many issues.
What does Obama's visit to the tomb of Archbishop Romero?
I personally believe that this visit would make sense only if understood as recognition of the witness that led Archbishop Romero. It will simply be legitimizing his defense of human rights.
1. But if the visit is only a political , then what is Obama to be liked a million people in Latin America and the world in order to increase its popularity.
The political course of the visit would change if Obama is tremendous, for example, in his speeches suggests the government and the Salvadoran political system to repeal the amnesty law, which covers many murderers in our country, now militant parties of right and left. If at least apologize to the Salvadoran people for giving military aid to repressive governments that led the Salvadoran civil war, if the military recognizes that not only killed Archbishop Romero, but thousands of Salvadorans were trained at the School of the Americas in Panama and the United States. Then his speech would be hopeful for the sake of building a real and stable democracy. Otherwise his speech would be politically and would pay the folk image of Archbishop Romero in recent years has been gaining strength in El Salvador.
2. Theologically the analysis becomes somewhat more complicated, as the visit if it lives up to the moral stature of Archbishop Romero will do more harm than good.
First you must understand that the tomb of Romero and his martyrdom have a symbolic value, ie, Romero represents all the innocent victims of the war period Salvadoran civil. In an apocalyptic figure updated Romero would be the victim, the Lamb slain (Rev. 5.6).
But Obama is a figurehead. He knows that is the Empire, ie, that his visit is private, but has a political and religious impact on the masses. In Obama's visit to Romero will face to face both corners of the historical dialectic: the Dragon and his victim. The mother-in this case understood as the Church-produced a faithful witness, Romero, whose testimony put into crisis and the Beast system generated one of the dragons, the murderer of Romero, who tried to disappear. But the land of the just came to his defense, the poorest, and never forgot his teacher they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of testimony they gave, because they despised his life before death (Rev 12:11).
But, if I remember correctly, the descendants of the Lamb will follow the Lamb, while the sons of the Dragon and Dragon will try to keep it alive among us:
and fell to the Gragón, because he had given the power to the Beast, and worshiped the beast saying "Who is like the beast?" Who can fight against it? " He was given a mouth uttering great things and blasphemy ... and she opened her mouth to blaspheme God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling place and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to make war on the saints and to overcome them was given power over every tribe, people, language and nation. and worshiped all the inhabitants of the land whose name is not registered, since the creation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb slain. He who has ears hear. "The one on the jail, the jail has to go, he who must die by the sword, a sword shall die." Here is the endurance and faith of the saints (Ap 13.4 to 10).
our Church hierarchy also plays a lot with this visit. In this respect, prudence calls us not to fall into what the text says in Luke 12.47-51:
"Woe to you, you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed! So , are witnesses and you agree with the works of your fathers: for they killed them and you build (monuments).
"So said the wisdom of God will send them prophets and apostles, and some will kill and persecute , to be held accountable for this generation of the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah which perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I assure you that this generation will be held accountable.
remains to wait if Obama's visit will bring some benefit to the real poverty that our people live. Otherwise, the next day we will wake up again, with dirty streets, paying large sums of money to apply for a U.S. visa, stalking the bus drivers to kill with impunity and corruption, with more immigrants killed, etc. etc ...
Hence, Luke's words are still lapidary 11.29:
This generation is an evil generation;
asks for a sign, and will not be given another signal that the sign of Jonah.
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