Amy Goodman
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U.S. Deports Salvadoran General Linked to Murders, Torture
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April 9, 2015
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1:56Now PlayingHuman rights advocates and family members of victims are celebrating a pair of victories in long campaigns to deport Salvadoran generals accused of U.Sbacked atrocities. On Wednesday, former General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova was deported to El Salvador from the U.S., ending a 16year legal battle. In a ruling last month, the Board of Immigration Appeals found there is ample evidence General Vides was complicit in the rape and murder of four U.S. churchwomen in 1980, as well as the torture of political prisoners. He is the highestranking foreign military leader to be deported under a 2004 law barring human rights violators from U.S. soil. Vides was a close U.S. government ally during his stint as defense minister for the Salvadoran junta between 1983 and 1989.
The U.S. government has moved to deport another Salvadoran general wanted in Spain. A U.N. inquiry has named Inocente Orlando Montano as among the top military officials who approved the murder plot that led to the 1989 slaying of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and the housekeeper’s daughter. The Jesuits had been outspoken advocates for the poor and critics of human rights abuses committed by the U.S.-backed ARENA government. Prosecutors say he came to the United States in part to avoid being brought to justice for the Jesuits’ murders. He is among 20 Salvadoran officials who have been indicted by a Spanish court.
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