Resurrection in El Salvador:
The University of Central America. A Hotbed of Liberation Theology
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| Six Jesuit professors, leaders at the University of Central America, were murdered. Considered the mind of the Liberation Theology movement, each had their brains literally blown out. |
The University of Central America (UCA) was founded by San Salvador's rich to give their children a safe and conservative environment for a higher education. The Jesuits established the notion of giving students skills to make the world a better place. Their mission today: to create liberation architects, liberation mathematicians, and liberation teachers. UCA gets no money from the government or local elites. It is funded by international aid. The Christmas packages from the wealthy to the professors stopped coming long ago and the campus has been bombed 25 times.
The six leading Jesuit professors were intellectual leaders of Liberation Theology and, therefore, considered leaders of the revolution. Because of that, they were murdered. Early one morning the Jesuits were taken from their humble quarters and dragged into the garden. One by one they were shot in the brains with exploding bullets because they were the "brains of the peoples' movement." Before the government death squad left they took time to shoot a bullet through the heart of a photo of Romero hanging on the wall…still trying to kill him nine years after his death.
Roses grow in a garden marking the place the six Jesuits were killed. The tomb of the six reads: What it means to be a Jesuit in our time: to commit yourself to take risks in the crucial struggle of our time — the struggle for faith and the struggle for justice that that same faith demands. We will not work for the promotion of justice without paying a price.
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