This installment of NCR’s 60th anniversary feature exemplifies the crucial role NCR has played in the media landscape since 1964. In the news report originally published Nov. 24, 1989, readers learn about the shocking massacre of Jesuit priests at the Central American University in San Salvador, which had occurred eight days earlier.
Thirty-five years later, the killings remain news and NCR once again is on top of the story. Rhina Guidos, Latin American regional correspondent for the Global Sisters Report, wrote for NCR on Nov. 21 that El Salvador ordered former president Alfredo Cristiani and 10 others to stand trial for the killing of the six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter — murders now considered war crimes.
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With thanks to National Catholic Reporter (NCR) and Jeromiah Taylor, where this article originally appeared.
