Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty." He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This all posed as a threat to the government. On March 24, 1980 Romero was celebrating mass. While he was preparing the Eucharist he was shot in the chest, killing him instantly. Romero is claimed as yet another Jesuit Martyr. .

             This set El Salvador into a full-scale civil war. During this civil war the more than 70,000 Salvadorians were killed. In March of 1988 after numerous reforms the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA, came to power. Lead by Alfredo Christiani it won easily, but only forty-seven percent of the voters turned out. This man was in charge for murdering the six Jesuit priests, their maid and her daughter in 1989. The country, at the time, was in a civil war.

             The men who killed Oscar Romero and the soldiers involved in the killings of six priests graduated from The School of Americas. The school is funded by the United States to teach the people to defend themselves. This school has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers. Many of whom are involved in drug trade and killing of innocent people. The school itself is located in the United States in Georgia. There are numerous sites on the Internet protesting this school. These sites have copies of manuals in which they show that the school teaches counter insurgence, drug busting and self-defense. These lessons have been used to go against government in various scandals. These scandals include the killing of over nine-hundred civilians in December of 1981. This attack was not an accident but planned out much like the My Lai slaughter in Vietnam by American soldiers. The US was accused of trying to cover up the 1981 killing but failed. .

             There reason for trying to cover up the killings is that groups that make the attempt to shut down The School of the Americas would have sound basis for its closing.