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Jara was a prominant leftist voice in the early 1970s in the period leading up to the military coup in Chile

“Estados Unidos procura la extradición de un ex oficial del ejército salvadoreño a España para enfrentarse a los cargos por participación en la masacre de los jesuitas de 1989”. Así hizo público el pasado martes 7 de abril el Gobierno de EEUU, a través de un documento al que ha tenido acceso EL MUNDO, el anuncio de la extradición del ex coronel salvadoreño Inocente Orlando Montano por participar en los asesinatos de cinco sacerdotes jesuitas españoles, entre los que se encontraba el ideólogo de la Teoría de la Liberación Ignacio Ellacuría, en la madrugada del 16 de noviembre de 1989, en la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA).

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.

The four nuns were killed by national guardsmen who later testified they were acting on orders from superior officers A former general convicted of human right abuses during El Salvador’s civil war has been deported from the US – despite his claim that the country’s military tactics were backed by Washington.

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.

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.

The U.S. government is working to extradite a former Salvadoran colonel to face charges that he helped plot the 1989 slayings of five Jesuit priests from Spain during El Salvador’s civil war, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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.

The U.S. government is working to extradite a former Salvadoran colonel to face charges that he helped plot the 1989 slayings of five Jesuit priests from Spain during El Salvador’s civil war.

U.S. authorities on Wednesday acted against two former Salvadoran military men who had lived freely and openly in the United States for years despite allegations they were involved in some of the most egregious atrocities committed in their homeland.