Guatemalan Kaibil sentenced in US - Dos Erres
Jose Ortiz Morales will serve nearly one year in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to unlawfully procure U.S. naturalization. Morales was a member of the Kaibiles unit that carried out the 1982 massacre at Dos Erres. U.S. authorities located Morales after a tip from Guatemalan prosecutors. Morales has already been indicted in Guatemala in connection to the massacre. He will presumably return to Guatemala to face charges once he serves out his time in a U.S. prison.
Meanwhile retired Salvadoran Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano continues to fight his extradition from the U.S. to Spain where he would stand trial for his role in the 1989 murders at the UCA in San Salvador. He is now requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court block his extradition on the grounds that he was not involved in the Jesuits' murders, he is sick, and he has never been to Spain.
While these cases do not address U.S. complicity in Central America's violence, I am impressed that we continue to go after gross human rights violators across successive administrations in the U.S. (Bush, Obama, and Trump) and that Guatemala does so as well (Colom, Perez Molina, and Morales).
Meanwhile retired Salvadoran Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano continues to fight his extradition from the U.S. to Spain where he would stand trial for his role in the 1989 murders at the UCA in San Salvador. He is now requesting that the U.S. Supreme Court block his extradition on the grounds that he was not involved in the Jesuits' murders, he is sick, and he has never been to Spain.
While these cases do not address U.S. complicity in Central America's violence, I am impressed that we continue to go after gross human rights violators across successive administrations in the U.S. (Bush, Obama, and Trump) and that Guatemala does so as well (Colom, Perez Molina, and Morales).
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