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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, p. 24

San Salvador. A court in El Salvador ruled that former president Alfredo Cristiani, along with a former deputy and nine retired soldiers, face criminal proceedings for their alleged responsibility in the massacre of six Jesuit priests and their two collaborators, perpetrated by an elite unit of the army on November 16, 1989, when the accused held high positions. The decision includes arrest warrants and red notice requests against Cristiani, who governed between 1989 and 1994; former deputy Rodolfo Antonio Parker, legal advisor to the General Staff of the Armed Forces at that time, and against the soldiers Joaquín Arnoldo Cerna, Juan Orlando Zepeda and Juan Rafael Bustillo, who did not appear at the preliminary hearing. Only five of the 11 defendants who will remain under house arrest attended this.