 Arturo Rivera y Damas.Archbishop Sáenz held the post once held by Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980.In the years following his installation, Sáenz was accused by critics of eviscerating the "preferential option for the poor" of his predecessors, notably Romero, by clamping down on progressive church movements affiliated with Liberation Theology with a series of personnel movements, closing of programs, and changes to seminary curriculum.