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September 14, 2020

Salvadoran Ex-Colonel Convicted for 1989 Murder of Jesuit Priests
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In Spain, a former Salvadoran Army colonel was convicted Friday for the
1989 murder of five Jesuit priests. Inocente Orlando Montano served as
El Salvador's security minister. He was sentenced to 133 years for
ordering the attack that was carried out by a U.S-trained
counterinsurgency force. Montano lived in the United States for 16
years, was extradited to Madrid in 2017. The death squad killed six
Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, but five of the
Jesuit priests were from Spain. It was their murder that he was
convicted of.


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