Push within El Salvador to advance priest massacre case 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 countrys civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers. (Edgar Romero/AP Photo File)
FILE - In this June 8, 2020 file photo, Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid, Spain. The former Salvadoran colonel was sentenced to 133 years in prison by a Spanish court on Friday, Sept, 11, 2020 for the slaying of five Spanish priests in El Salvador more than three decades ago. The case is raising calls once again for El Salvador to deal with this dark chapter in its history. (Kiko Huesca, EFE/Pool Photo via AP)
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2008 file photo, Alfredo Cristiani, former president of El Salvador, attends the general assembly of his political party in San Salvador. The Spanish court that sentenced on Sept. 11, 2020, former Salvadoran colonel Inocente Orlando Montano for the 1989 massacre of five Spanish Jesuit priests, called it state terrorism carried out by powerful interests, including Cristiani, aimed at holding onto their positions of privilege within the power structures. Cristiani has denied any involvement or knowledge of the plan to kill the priests. (AP Photo/Edgar Romero, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 1989, file photo, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mons. Arturo Rivera y Damas and journalists view the bodies of six Jesuit priests murdered in San Salvador. The sentencing of former Salvadoran colonel Inocente Orlando Montano to 133 years in prison by a Spanish court on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in relation to the 1989 massacre by an elite comando unit is raising calls once again for El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of the massacre. (AP Photo/John Hopper, File)
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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 countrys civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers. (Edgar Romero/AP Photo File)