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The United States on Wednesday deported Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, El Salvador’s former defense minister, accused of involvement in torture and killings 30 years ago during the Central American country’s bloody civil war, U.S. officials said.

A former general linked to human rights abuses during El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s was deported by the U.S. on Wednesday and flown to his home country, where officials said he faces no charges or restrictions on his movements.

Inocente Orlando Montano. Recuerde ese nombre. El asesino de cinco jesuitas españoles es el primer criminal de guerra que será juzgado y cumplirá condena en España en base a la ley de justicia universal

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.

On March 11, 2015, the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova’s appeal to cancel his removal from the United States for having ordered the torture and extrajudicial killings of civilians in El Salvador, including the torture of CJA clients Dr. Juan Romagoza Arce and Mr. Pedro Daniel Alvarado. Read more in this New York Times article.

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.