El Salvador Article Analysis

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This article starts off with a summary lede. "Nearly 20 years after the Salvadoran Army killed six Jesuit priest in one of the most notorious events of El Salvador's civil war, a criminal complaint filed in the Spanish High Court has revived hopes that those behind the massacre could face trial." It details some of the event's history and gives only the who, where, and what. That would seemingly make the lede weak, but since the lede already gives part of the piece's background, this would only serve to make it bulky and awkward. 

The lede is followed by a good deal of elaboration on the subject, giving the reader the when and the how. The second paragraph also provides the nut graf. This is then followed by a killer quote, a compact expression of the piece as a whole, and providing information from a direct source. 

The story goes on to provide the entire history of the event that the article covers. In this, it follows both a background/details structure and also serves as an update piece to something that happened 20 years ago. The piece ends with another source and a quote from her looking ahead to what may happen in El Salvador even if the trial in Spain fails.