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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2008 file photo, people hold banners depicting six Jesuit priests massacred in 1989, during a memorial to mark the 19th anniversary of their death, in San Salvador. For years, attempts within El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of the massacre during that country’s civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers. (Edgar Romero/AP Photo File)

Push within El Salvador to advance priest massacre case

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid, Spain, Monday June 8 2020. Spain's National Court on Monday started the trial of two former Salvadoran military men for their alleged involvement in the massacre of five Spanish priests in El Salvador more than three decades ago. Orlando Montano, a former colonel who served as El Salvador's vice minister for public security during the country's 1979-1992 civil war, faces up to 150 years of imprisonment for the slays in 1989. (Kiko Huesca, EFE/Pool Photo via AP)

Spain begins trial for killings of 5 Jesuits in El Salvador

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press