María Julia Hernández

María Julia Hernández (January 30, 1939 – March 30, 2007)[1] was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador.

Hernández did her work in a sparsely furnished room decorated by a cross and two photographs of Archbishop Óscar Romero, the church leader who was assassinated in 1980 by right-wing forces in El Salvador.

Romero was killed while celebrating Mass, after calling upon the army to stop the death squads who were attacking real and imagined opponents of the status quo.

Hernández worked with Romero, who was installed as bishop in 1977, at the start of a 15-year wave of violence that pitted a relative handful of left-wing guerillas against the ruling class, the armed forces and the government of El Salvador.

[3][4] It was named after a 1963 encyclical letter by Pope John XXIII that calls upon all people of good will to secure peace among all nations (Pacem in terris is Latin for 'Peace on Earth'.)

Maria Julia Hernandez. Fighter for justice and the defense of human rights. Collaborator with Archbishop Romero and initiator of the investigations of the El Mozote Massacre and the assassination of Saint Oscar Romero.