This is kind of an old topic but I know a little about the subject.

I don't think it's correct to say he was part of liberation theology.

Also, some of what he said was good. He spoke against sin and called for a moral revolution against sin.

There's a book called the Violence of Love that collects a lot of his quotes and you can see what he said. Some of it was good.

I would say he was sort of similar to Martin Luther King.

Someone who is into Liberation Theology could cite Oscar Romero in the same way they might cite Martin Luther King (except for King being some kind of Protestant).

Fidel Castro promoted Marxist revolution across Latin America.

One of the things they do is they try to make it look grassroots.

Sort of like Venezuela today, the cινιℓ ωαr in El Salvador was basically a proxy war between US and Russia.

The guerrillas were the FMLN. There were actually multiple groups before the FMLN but the Cubans made it a condition for support that they should become one group- hence, the FMLN was formed.

I mention this because it wasn't a grassroots, indigenous thing.

I'm not saying the people didn't have legitimate grievances. However, I'm sure you yourself have some sort of legitimate grievance in regards to something. If some Cubans show up and hand you guns, ammunition and Marxist indoctrination- then things are different. It's not exactly an organic thing at that point. The Communists exploit peoples' grievances and then use them as pawns for a Communist agenda.

Ignacio Martín-Baro, Ignacio Ellacuría and Oscar Romero were all killed.

The first two were blatantly Marxist. It's blatantly obvious in the writings of Martín-Baro. I've read them. I saw footage of Ellacuría openly praising the FMLN and obviously supporting them.

Oscar Romero.... to my understanding he wasn't a Marxist. I don't think he was at all (btw the other two were more academic figures whereas Romero spoke over the radio and was massively popular).

I think Romero was perfectly... "normal"... so to speak.... but there was a priest he was friends with who... either was a Marxist or sort of leaned that way.

So the lefty-leaning priest gets killed. And this had a huge impact on Romero.

So Romero would start to make statements which would seem to sort of favor the guerrillas. He would preach non-violence and actually against revolution.

However, he would seem to support the aims of the guerrillas while disagreeing with their methods.

If I was some far lefty, I could quote Martin Luther King. He might have preached nonviolence but there is tons I'd be able to quote. Romero is sort of similar although Romero I think honestly was not a Marxist whereas I think Martin Luther King really was a Marxist or a sympathizer. King I think was really a political guy who used religion as a means to that end whereas Romero was a sincere Catholic priest. He was traumatized by his friend being killed and I think he fell for some of the rhetoric.

There's a movie called Romero which tells the story (although I think the movie is a little biased).

I think they killed him because he told the soldiers to not follow orders, citing "thou shalt not kill". I think that was when they finally chose to kill him.

My friend's dad fought in the army during that war. I don't believe Romero was a Marxist. I respect him and I think his death was a tragedy.

The cινιℓ ωαr was brutal but.... I mean.... the army was fighting to save their patria (motherland or fatherland) from Communism.