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Óscar Romero

Archbishop of San Salvador, 1917 to 1980

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Turned from conservative churchman to defender of the poor, condemned military repression in El Salvador and was assassinated while saying Mass in 1980.

Óscar Romero sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly religious on religion, strongly peace-first on war and peace and leaning state-led on economy. The profile is close to the middle on technology.

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Where Óscar Romero sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Óscar Romero

Dietrich Bonhoeffer German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, 1906 to 194599%Bob Marley Jamaican musician, 1945 to 198197%Simone Weil French philosopher and activist, 1909 to 194397%Cesar Chavez American labor leader, 1927 to 199397%Rosa Parks American civil rights activist, 1913 to 200597%Muhammad Ali American boxer and activist, 1942 to 201696%Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist minister and civil rights leader, 1929 to 196895%Desmond Tutu South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist, 1931 to 202194%

People furthest from Óscar Romero

Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 19538%Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea, 2011 to present9%Adolf Hitler Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 194511%Mao Zedong Chairman of the Communist Party of China, 1943 to 197612%

Political views closest to Óscar Romero

Christian leftDraws on Christian ethics for social justice, peace and care for the poor, including…99%DistributismSpreads property widely among families and small producers, opposing both big capital…94%Utopian socialismImagines planned model communities built on cooperation, an approach that predates…88%LocalismPushes power and decisions down to the smallest workable community.88%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Arzobispado de San Salvador; Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.