Pursuit of Justice for Wartime Atrocities in Latin America
El Salvador has reopened the trial for the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two women, with former President Alfredo Cristiani and other officials facing charges. This case seeks accountability for a crime committed during a brutal civil war, which claimed over 70,000 lives. Spanish courts had previously convicted a former Salvadoran colonel for his role in the massacre. Meanwhile, in Guatemala, the trial of former military chief Manuel Benedicto Lucas García for genocide against the Ixil..
