Is every Jesuit killed fighting for Communism a martyr?
It’s a new world for men who fought Communist guerrillas in Latin America. They’ve got no home in this country any more.
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.
Vides Casanova was defense minister from 1983-89, a brutal period during the conflict between leftist rebels and U.S.-backed government forces. He retired and moved to Florida in 1989.
The Department of Homeland Security had in 2009 announced its initiation of deportation proceedings, at the request of human rights activists who sued on behalf of torture survivors.
How could he be a pro-freedom immigrant one day and a torturing criminal after Obama takes the White House? I guess Obama’s no Bill Clinton Democrat.
“The deportation of General Vides Casanova is a historic moment for the victims and survivors of human rights abuses during El Salvador’s civil war,” said Carolyn Patty Blum, Legal Advisor the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability, which brought a case against Vides Casanova in 1999 on behalf of torture victims living in the United States.
“The removal from the United States of Vides Casanova, a general at the apex of power during years of horrendous repression, is unprecedented, she added.
It’s so unprecedented you could even call it un-American.
His deportation to El Salvador came on the same day that U.S. authorities announced they will seek the extradition of a former colonel in the Salvadoran army wanted by Spain to face charges over the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
This should lend much-needed credibility to these new FrancisChurch saints the Pope is eager to proclaim, Jesuit priests who plotted against their governments on behalf of that ‘christianity’ he says people always confuse with Communism.