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El Gobierno de Estados Unidos pidió hoy a un tribunal de Carolina del Norte que apruebe la extradición a España del excoronel y exviceministro de Seguridad salvadoreño Inocente Montano, acusado por el asesinato de cinco sacerdotes jesuitas españoles en El Salvador en 1989.

WASHINGTON — Inocente Orlando Montano Morales went from elite military training in Georgia and a high-ranking position in El Salvador to a lowly prison cell in North Carolina. Now the Justice Department wants to pack off the 72-year-old Salvadoran former army colonel to face murder charges in Spain for his alleged role in a 1989 massacre in El Salvador. The new charges reopen a notorious chapter in Central American history, and they come just days before Montano Morales is set to be freed from the privately run Winton, N.C., prison that’s currently his home.

The crime occurred 25 years ago during the Salvadoran civil war. The U.S. government asked a North Carolina court Wednesday to approve the extradition of a Salvadoran former colonel and minister to Spain for the murders of six Jesuit priests, five of whom were Spaniards, in 1989.

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

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.

The U.S. government filed a request seeking the extradition to Spain of Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, the former Vice Minister of Public Safety in El Salvador, for his role in the 1989 Jesuit massacre, in which six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter were murdered in San Salvador.

General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, the former Defense Minister of El Salvador who was found liable for human rights violations during the country’s civil war in the 1980s, was deported to El Salvador after living as a legal resident in Florida for over 25 years.

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 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.)