Dianna Ortiz, nun who told of brutal abduction by Guatemalan military, dies at 62
By Ryan Di Corpo The Washington Post,Updated February 20, 2021, 4:25 p.m.
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Dianna Ortiz, author of "The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey From Torture to Truth," has died of cancer at 62.Juana Arias/The Washington Post
Dianna Ortiz, a slight Catholic nun from New Mexico, arrived in Guatemala in 1987 against a backdrop of devastating violence: a decades-long civil war, pitting Marxist guerrillas against the U.S.-backed military, that would ultimately claim 200,000 lives.
But as a member of the Ursuline teaching order who came to the country's western highlands to help Mayan grade-school children learn to read and write and understand the Bible, she said, she felt relatively insulated from the killings and disappearances.