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Demonstrators greet former Salvadoran general Carlos Vides, deported yesterday for former war crimes. He was finally sent back. Yesterday Carlos Vides, the former Salvadoran general, war crimes perpetrator, and central Florida resident was deported to El Salvador after being held for weeks at an immigration detention center in Louisiana. For Vides’ thousands of Salvadoran victims, and for the lawyers and activists in the United States who worked for decades on their behalf, his deportation marked a watershed victory for justice.

A former Salvadoran defense minister who’s been living in Florida for 25 years is a step closer to deportation after the highest U.S. immigration appeals court found he covered up torture and murder by his troops, including the 1980 murders of four U.S. churchwomen by members of the National Guard.

Ruling to deport General Vides could signal warning for human rights violators enjoying sanctuary on American soil.

Accused human rights abuser Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 77, moves closer to deportation in likely precedent for future cases in Sunshine State

The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but we can as a nation celebrate the decision of an immigration board to deport retired Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova to El Salvador for his role in vicious human rights abuses in the 1980s [“Salvadoran general can be deported for aiding torture,” news, March 14].

The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled last week that General Carlos Eugenio Vides-Casanova could be removed to El Salvador on account of his participation in human rights abuses in the 1980s when he was head of the National Guard (1979–1983) and then Minister of Defense (1983–1989). (The judgment is here.)

WASHINGTON — An immigration appeals court has upheld the deportation of a former Defence minister of El Salvador during the 1980s, when US-backed security forces there committed numerous human rights abuses, including the kidnapping and murders of four US churchwomen.

Former defense minister of El Salvador, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, leaves federal court in Palm Beach, Fla. An immigration appeals court earlier this week ruled that a former defense minister of El Salvador can be deported back to the Central American country due to his participation in or concealment of torture and murder by his troops during the bloody civil war in the 1980s.

Washington.- El exministro de Defensa salvadoreño, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova,implicado en masacres, torturas y ejecuciones extrajudiciales durante el conflicto civil en El Salvador, afrontará la deportación después de que este miércoles una junta de apelaciones de Inmigración recomendara su expulsión de EEUU.

Un médico salvadoreño declaró el miércoles en la corte de inmigración de Miami que presenció masacres, atendió a victimas de torturas y sufrió torturas él mismo cuando el ex general José Guillermo García era ministro de la Defensa en El Salvador.

El ex embajador de Estados Unidos en El Salvador declaró el martes en la corte de inmigración de Miami que varias veces le solicitó al entonces ministro salvadoreño de Defensa, José Guillermo García, que despidiera o castigara a los militares que cometían atrocidades pero que éste nunca mostró interés en hacer nada.

El juicio sobre la posible deportación del exministro de Defensa de El Salvador José Guillermo García Merino, acusado en su país de participar en actos de tortura y violaciones a los derechos humanos durante la guerra civil (1980-1992), se inició hoy en un tribunal de Estados Unidos.

A federal appeals court has reversed a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals — one of them a Broward County resident — accused of turning a blind eye to the torture of citizens during their country’s bloody civil war two decades ago.

Dr. Juan Ramogoza, who provided medical care to El Salvador’s poor, was imprisoned and tortured in 1980. He later fled to the United States. Two years ago he sued two Salvadoran generals for his suffering, and won. Now his homeland is honoring him as a “Distinguished Salvadoran Humanist.” Ramogoza speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon.

Students gathered in Bechtel International Center last night to commemorate women’s struggles in the name of International Women’s Day, which is March 8. The event featured three keynote speakers who spoke about their shared pursuit of justice for torture and human rights abuses against Salvadorean civilians.

We take a look at the case of a torture-victim from El Salvador who confronted two former Salvadoran generals living in the U.S. He won a watershed victory last summer when a jury ruled that the two generals held “command responsibility” over abuses by the military.

Bay Area organizations, backed by high-powered corporate attorneys, are taking the lead in a growing movement that uses U.S. courts to go after abusers of human rights worldwide.

A federal jury in a civil lawsuit ruled yesterday that two retired Salvadoran generals now living in South Florida were responsible for acts of torture committed 20 years ago by troops under their command.

El Salvador’s vice president said Wednesday that a U.S. jury had no right to order two former Salvadoran generals to pay $54.6 million in damages to torture victims of the country’s 1980-1992 civil war.

A federal jury ordered two retired Salvadoran generals today to pay $54.6 million in damages to three civilians who were tortured by security forces during El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago.

Reopening a bloody wound from two decades ago, a U.S. federal court in Florida on Tuesday found two retired Salvadoran generals responsible for torture, rape and other atrocities committed during El Salvador’s civil war.

Two former generals have been found guilty by a US court of ignoring acts of brutality and torture in El Salvador 20 years ago.

A Chicago woman took the stand in federal court Wednesday and faced the two retired Salvadoran generals she holds responsible for her torture in El Salvador more than two decades ago.

Testifying in a civil suit brought by three Salvadorans who accuse their country’s military of torturing them two decades ago, a former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador said Tuesday that the failure of military leaders to rein in murderous troops had been the biggest obstacle to democracy.

The trial of two retired Salvadoran generals in a two-decade-old torture case opened here today with a witness singling out one of them as a participant in a brutal 24-day interrogation.

Two Salvadoran generals linked to the brutal massacre of American nuns are living in luxury in the U.S. with the help of your tax dollars!