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.Â
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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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