Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)

School of the Americas Graduates Responsible for 1989 Jesuit Massacre Face Extradition to Spain

North Carolina/El Salvador – The 1989 massacre of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and six Jesuit priests at the University of Central America (UCA) in El Salvador, that galvanized opposition to the U.S. relationship with Central American death squads and that sparked the movement to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, is making headlines again.