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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 invest...
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. Email to a Friend 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 Ursulin...