{"id":1663,"date":"2015-04-09T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2015-04-09T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:48:36","slug":"francischurch-martyrs-obama-justice-dept-deporting-anti-communist-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"FrancisChurch Martyrs: Obama Justice Dept. Deporting Anti-Communist Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1669\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jesuitmartyrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\" wp-image-1669\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jesuitmartyrs.jpg?resize=421%2C342\" alt=\"Is every Jesuit killed fighting for Communism a martyr?\" width=\"421\" height=\"342\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is every Jesuit killed fighting for Communism a martyr?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new world for men who fought Communist guerrillas in Latin America.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/04\/08\/us-elsalvador-spain-crimes-idUSKBN0MZ1TH20150408\" target=\"_blank\">home <\/a>in this country any more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States on Wednesday deported Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, El Salvador&#8217;s former defense minister, accused of involvement in torture and killings 30 years ago during the Central American country&#8217;s bloody civil war, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How could he be a pro-freedom immigrant one day and a torturing criminal after Obama takes the White House?\u00a0 I guess Obama&#8217;s no Bill Clinton Democrat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The deportation of General Vides Casanova is a historic moment for the victims and survivors of human rights abuses during El Salvador&#8217;s civil war,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s so unprecedented you could even call it un-American.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 <a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/spain\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spain<\/a> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8216;christianity&#8217; he says people always confuse with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsitter.com\/view_news_id_193468.php\" target=\"_blank\">Communism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new world for men who fought Communist guerrillas in Latin America.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got no home in this country any more. The United States on Wednesday deported Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, El Salvador&#8217;s former defense minister, accused of involvement in torture and killings 30 years ago during the Central American country&#8217;s bloody civil war, <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=1663\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,182,184,185,183],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-eugenio-vides-casanova","tag-el-salvador","tag-extradite","tag-jesuit-communists","tag-jesuit-martyrs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}