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American travelers mix it up with locals as the streets are fi lled to remember Romero.
h e symbolic resurrection of Romero in his people is depicted in colorful
murals showing the people of El Salvador rising like tall stocks of corn with
big smiles and bullet wounds in their hands. In Latin America, crosses are
decorated with peasants and symbols of their lives—healthy stocks of corn.
While this is a land of martyrs, it's also a fertile land of resurrection.
During the repression of the 1970s and 1980s, many nuns and religious
laywomen were murdered along with Romero. h eir spirit, like Romero's,
clearly lives on in the feisty women of the church so outspoken in El Salva-
dor today.
Nuns we met had a passionate message and lots of quotable quotes:
“Excluding and dehumanizing the poor is a kind of terrorism. Latin Amer-
ica has one of the biggest
gaps between the rich and
poor. As the gap grows,
it's a kind of war. Hun-
ger is violence. h ere can
be no peace when there
is still hunger. h e push
of globalization here has
taught us that as human-
ity learns to worship the
god of productivity, a
