In the early hours of November 16, 1989, six Jesuit professors, their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter were roused from sleep by US-trained Salvadoran special forces, led outside, and shot to death on the lawn of the Central American University José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in San Salvador.
They were: Ignacio EllacurÃa, Ignacio MartÃn-Baró, Segundo Montes, Amando López, Juan Ramón Moreno, JoaquÃn López y López, as well as Julia Elba Ramos and her 15-year-old daughter Celina.