SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Prosecutors in El Salvador say they have evidence that former President Alfredo Cristiani was present at a meeting that approved the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others by soldiers. Prosecutors who announced the case against Cristiani last year presented formal charges against the former president at an arraignment hearing late Monday, saying …
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he wants to cut the number of municipalities in the country from 262 to 44 to reduce the tax burden. The conservative National Republican Alliance party said it saw clear electoral motivation behind the move just one year before Bukele plans to seek re-election despite a widespread interpretation of …
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A court in El Salvador on Friday ordered the capture of former President Alfredo Cristiani in relation to the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others by soldiers. El Salvador’s Attorney General’s Office has accused Cristiani, Parker and a number of former high-ranking military officers of being behind the murders. While the case …
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — For years, attempts within El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of a massacre of six Jesuit priests during that country’s civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers. The sentencing of former Salvadoran colonel Inocente Orlando Montano to 133 years in prison by a Spanish court earlier this month in relation …
