
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)