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Dianna Ortiz, nun who told of brutal abduction by Guatemalan military, dies at 62


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. ....

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Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62


Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62
She became a champion of survivors of torture and helped compel the release of documents showing U.S. complicity in decades of human rights abuses in Guatemala.
Sister Dianna Ortiz in 1996. After being raped and tortured in Guatemala, she helped focus attention on the 200,000 people who were killed or disappeared during that country’s 36-year civil war.Credit.Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Dianna Ortiz, an American Roman Catholic nun whose rape and torture in Guatemala in 1989 helped lead to the release of documents showing American involvement in human rights abuses in that country, died on Friday in hospice care in Washington. She was 62. ....

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