SALVADORAN GENERAL WHO COMMITTED TORTURE DEPORTED FROM FLORIDA
- April 9, 2015
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.
CJA Adopts New Strategic Plan
- April 9, 2015
CJA’s Board of Directors adopted a bold new strategic plan in April 2015 to reflect the three pillars underlying CJA’s efforts to advance human rights: litigation, policy and transitional justice. Click here to view the plan.
Former Salvadoran General Vides Casanova Deported from the U.S.
- April 8, 2015
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.
Ex-Salvadoran Colonel Accused in Jesuit Massacre Faces Extradition to Spain to Stand Trial for Human Rights Violations
- April 8, 2015
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.
Salvadoran general linked to death of US churchwomen gets deported
- April 8, 2015
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.
An American sanctuary ends for Salvadoran general
- April 8, 2015
Ruling to deport General Vides could signal warning for human rights violators enjoying sanctuary on American soil.
US Requests Extradition of Salvadoran Colonel for Jesuit Deaths
- April 8, 2015
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.
U.S. wants Salvadoran ex-colonel to face murder charges in ’89 deaths
- April 8, 2015
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.
EE UU pide extraditar a España a un exmilitar salvadoreño acusado de matar a cinco jesuitas
- April 8, 2015
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.
U.S. moves against two Salvadoran military men in landmark cases
- April 8, 2015
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.
