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”.