Orlando Montano convicted

(EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ)

The National Court in Spain has sentenced former Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano to 134 years in prison for ordering the murder of six Jesuits in El Salvador.

It has been 31 years since the massacre took place on November 16, 1989, when several troops of the Army of El Salvador machine-gunned six Jesuits to death, five of whom were Spanish.

In addition to these six people, a domestic worker and her daughter were also killed in this bloody massacre. The multiple murder was planned in advance by senior military officials, including the former colonel and deputy minister of Public Security of the Army of El Salvador, who has been without freedom since November 29, 2017.

 

The victims were killed by the Atlacatl Batallion. The Atlacatl Battalion’s first trained Salvadoran soldiers arrived back in El Salvador in 1981. The battalion was trained at Ft. Bragg, NC by US Special Forces and the 2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry of the 82nd ABN. Atlacatl soldiers were equipped and directed by U.S. military advisers operating in El Salvador during the civil war of the 1980s. The New York Times described the Atlacatl Battalion as “the pride of the United States military team in San Salvador. Trained in antiguerrilla operations, the battalion was intended to turn a losing war around”. (X)

 

Learn more:

MURDER OF JESUIT PRIESTS AND CIVILIANS IN EL SALVADOR

 

Two women hope testimony leads to conviction in El Salvador’s 1989 Jesuit priest massacre

 

Ex-Salvadoran colonel jailed for 1989 murder of Spanish Jesuits

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