{"id":69107,"date":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/article\/%section%\/tras-muerte-de-sacerdote-autoridades-salvadorea%c2%b1as-arrestan-a-sacristan\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T04:00:00","slug":"tras-muerte-de-sacerdote-autoridades-salvadorea%c2%b1as-arrestan-a-sacristan","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/article\/en-espanol\/internacional\/tras-muerte-de-sacerdote-autoridades-salvadorea%c2%b1as-arrestan-a-sacristan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tras muerte de sacerdote, autoridades salvadore\u00f1as arrestan a sacrist\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Autoridades salvadore\u00f1as han arrestado a un sacrist\u00e1n de 34 a\u00f1os, quien se encuentra bajo la custodia en relaci\u00f3n con el asesinato de un sacerdote salvadore\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham Heriberto Mestizo apareci\u00f3 por primera vez en la corte el 14 de junio, tras haber sido acusado formalmente por funcionarios de Sonsonate de estar involucrado en el asesinato del padre Cecilio P\u00e9rez Cruz, de 35 a\u00f1os, quien recibi\u00f3 un disparo mortal el 18 de mayo en su casa.<\/p>\n<p>En un comunicado, la Polic\u00eda Nacional Civil de El Salvador dijo que Mestizo era el sacrist\u00e1n de la parroquia San Jos\u00e9 La Majada en Juay\u00faa, en la parte occidental de El Salvador, donde el sacerdote era el p\u00e1rroco, pero la declaraci\u00f3n no explica por qu\u00e9 lo hab\u00edan vinculado al crimen.<\/p>\n<p>Algunos inicialmente sospecharon que el sacerdote hab\u00eda sido asesinado por pandillas, un crimen com\u00fan en el pa\u00eds centroamericano. El Arzobispado de San Salvador y otros miembros de la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica expresaron sospechas de que el sacerdote no hab\u00eda sido asesinado por pandillas, pero por su defensa del medio ambiente.<\/p>\n<p>Recientemente hab\u00eda criticado la tala de \u00e1rboles cerca de Juay\u00faa.<\/p>\n<p>En un video corto difundido por varias agencias de noticias de internet el 14 de junio, Mestizo aparece ante las c\u00e1maras diciendo: &#8220;Que se haga justicia, quien haya hecho estas cosas&#8221;. En las afueras del sitio donde Mestizo se encontraba recluido, una multitud de feligreses de San Jos\u00e9 de La Majada oraba en la calle y dijeron que el sacrist\u00e1n era inocente, informaron algunas agencias de noticias salvadore\u00f1as. La polic\u00eda dijo que hab\u00eda sido capturado el 10 de junio, pero no enfrent\u00f3 cargos formales hasta cuatro d\u00edas despu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Poco despu\u00e9s del asesinato del padre P\u00e9rez, funcionarios de la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica exigieron justicia ya que el asesinato de otro sacerdote en 2018 sigue sin resolverse. Desde el arzobispo de San Salvador hasta los grupos de derechos humanos conectados a la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica, muchos han pedido una investigaci\u00f3n del crimen.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autoridades salvadore\u00f1as han arrestado a un sacrist\u00e1n de 34 a\u00f1os, quien se encuentra bajo la custodia en relaci\u00f3n con el asesinato de un sacerdote salvadore\u00f1o. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":78438,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"section":[1569],"topic":[],"ach_author":[1584],"class_list":["post-69107","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-internacional","ach_author-por-rhina-guidos"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/69107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=69107"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=69107"},{"taxonomy":"ach_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ach_author?post=69107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}