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How Dianna Ortiz Exposed U.S. Complicity in Guatemalan War Crimes An interview with journalist Allan Nairn following her recent death. Sister Dianna Ortiz Sister Dianna Ortiz passed away on February 19 from cancer at the age of sixty-two. Ortiz was an Ursuline nun and a human rights activist who worked in the highlands of Guatemala beginning in 1987. In 2004, she wrote the award-winning book Ortizâs 1995 court case resulted in a $47.5 million judgment against a Guatemalan military official. Dennis Bernstein, host of Pacifica Radioâs program Flashpoints, recently interviewed investigative reporter, Allan Nairn, who in 1980 reported from Guatemala in the middle of an assassination campaign targeting student leaders, amid a chaotic counterinsurgency campaign against Marxist guerrillas active in both urban and rural areas. ....
Dianna Ortiz, Catholic nun whose abduction and torture in Guatemala shone a light on US meddling abroad – obituary She caused an international sensation with her claim that her abductors had been helped by an American Sister Dianna Ortiz: American officials questioned her account Credit: The Washington Times/Avalon Sister Dianna Ortiz, who has died aged 62, was an Ursuline nun abducted and tortured by Guatemalan security forces in 1989; later she gave a graphic account of horrors inflicted, making headlines with the claim that her tormentors had been supervised by a mysterious “Alejandro”, who, she said, spoke halting Spanish “with a thick American accent”. His English, she insisted, “was American, flawless, unaccented”. ....
Ursuline Sr. Dianna Ortiz (Courtesy of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph) Sr. Dianna Ortiz, who not only survived kidnapping and torture but used the experience to become a voice for torture victims everywhere, died of cancer Feb. 19. She was 62. An Ursuline Sister of Mount St. Joseph, Kentucky, Ortiz was working as a missionary in Guatemala in 1989 when she was kidnapped by Guatemalan security forces because of her work with Indigenous people. She was taken to a secret detention center in the capital and tortured for 24 hours until she was able to escape. She returned to her family in the United States but was so traumatized, she had no memory of her life before the abduction and was unable to recall family members or her Ursuline sisters. She spent years pursuing justice, but no one was ever charged, and her memory never fully returned. ....