CJA In The News

Seventy years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the United States still lacks the laws needed to prosecute war criminals in its custody and give redress to victims.

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

Today, a U.S. District Court court ordered that CJA’s case against the killer of famous Chilean folksinger Víctor Jara will move forward on claims of torture and extrajudicial killing: “We are delighted with the news that our case will move forward for

“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).

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.

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’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.

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.

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.

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.