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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Louis Proyect" <<a href="mailto:lnp3@panix.com" class="">lnp3@panix.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[marxmail] Dianna Ortiz, American Nun Tortured in Guatemala, Dies at 62</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">February 21, 2021 at 8:14:05 AM CST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:marxmail@groups.io" class="">marxmail@groups.io</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:marxmail@groups.io" class="">marxmail@groups.io</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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serving as a missionary and teaching Indigenous children in
the western highlands of Guatemala, Sister Ortiz was
abducted, gang-raped and tortured by a Guatemalan security
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concert with her abductors.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">Only
after years of extensive therapy at the<span class=""> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.heartlandalliance.org/program/marjorie-kovler-center/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
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Center</a><span class=""> </span>in Chicago for survivors of
torture did Sister Ortiz start to recover, at which point
she began to hunt down information about her case. She went
on to become a global champion for people subjected to
torture, and her case would help compel the release of
classified documents showing decades of U.S. complicity in
human rights abuses in Guatemala during its 36-year civil
war, in which 200,000 civilians were killed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%;" class="">It was never clear why she
and many other Americans were targeted. She was told at one
point that hers was a case of mistaken identity, an
assertion she didn’t believe. Her attack came during a
particularly lawless period; ravaged by war, Guatemala was
being run by a series of right-wing military dictatorships,
some of them violent toward Indigenous people and suspicious
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abductors were supervised by an American, she was smeared.
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never occurred, simultaneously claiming that it had been
carried out by nongovernmental elements and therefore was
not a human rights abuse,” she said in the interview with
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Ortiz filed Freedom of Information Act requests. She pressed
her case in American and Guatemalan courts. In 1995, a
federal judge in Boston<span class=""> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/13/world/us-judge-orders-ex-guatemala-general-to-pay-47.5-million.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline; text-decoration: underline 1px solid rgb(50,
104, 145); color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">ordered a former
Guatemala general to pay $47.5 million</a><span class=""> </span>to
her and eight Guatemalans, saying they had been victims of
his “indiscriminate campaign of terror” against thousands of
civilians. (She never received the money.)</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">She
recounted her story to the news media and participated in
protests to urge the American government to release its
files on her. In 1996, she began a five-week vigil and
hunger strike across from the White House seeking the
declassification of all U.S. government documents related to
human rights abuses in Guatemala since 1954.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">In
a little-noted moment,<span class=""> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/05/world/hillary-clinton-visits-with-protesting-nun.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
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104, 145); color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Hillary Clinton, at
the time the first lady, met with Sister Ortiz</a><span class=""> </span>during
her hunger strike. Ms. Kennedy said in a phone interview
that Mrs. Clinton’s prodding had helped lead to the release
of government papers regarding Sister Ortiz.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">The
files were heavily redacted and did not reveal the identity
of the American or by what authority he had access to the
scene of her torture. But Sister Ortiz’s case became part of
a sweeping review of American foreign policy and covert
action in Guatemala during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton
administrations.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">Over
time, declassified documents showed that<span class=""> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/march99/guatemala11.htm" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline; text-decoration: underline 1px solid rgb(50,
104, 145); color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Guatemalan forces
that committed acts of genocide</a><span class=""> </span>during
the civil war had been equipped and trained by the United
States.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%;" class="">“Dianna shined a huge
spotlight on the fact that the United States government,
through the C.I.A. and military intelligence, was working
hand in glove with the Guatemala military intelligence
units,” Jennifer Harbury, a close friend, said in an
interview. Her husband, a Guatemalan commando, had been
killed during the civil war.</div>
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1999,<span class=""> </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/11/world/clinton-offers-his-apologies-to-guatemala.html" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
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Clinton apologized for the American involvement</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">Sister
Ortiz’s book, “The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture
to Truth” (2002, with Patricia Davis), recounted the
psychological toll that both the abduction and her quest for
the truth had taken on her.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">And
at some point, her friends said, she realized that she had
to stop, for her own sanity.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">“It
was so exhausting for her; she had to pull back, or it was
going to do her in,” Meredith Larson, a friend and fellow
human rights activist who was also attacked in Guatemala,
said in an interview.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">Sister
Ortiz stopped agitating for information in her own case, Ms.
Larson said, but she became a champion of torture survivors,
remaining active in torture-related causes.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">“She
has moved our collective consciousness on how destructive
torture is and how important it is to support the well-being
of survivors,” Ms. Larson said.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">Dianna
Mae Ortiz was born on Sept. 2, 1958, in Colorado Springs,
Colo., and grew up in Grants, N.M., one of eight children.
Her mother, Ambroshia, was a homemaker; her father, Pilar
Ortiz, was a uranium miner.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; max-width: 100%;" class="">She
is survived by her mother; her brothers, Ronald, Pilar Jr.,
John and Josh Ortiz; and her sisters, Barbara Murrietta and
Michelle Salazar. Another brother, Melvin, died in 1974.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%;" class="">Dianna yearned for a
religious life from an early age and in 1977 entered the
Ursuline novitiate at Mount St. Joseph, in Maple Mount, Ky.
She then became a sister of the Ursuline Order. While
undergoing her religious training, she attended nearby
Brescia University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in
elementary and early childhood education. She taught
kindergarten before going to Guatemala in 1987.</div>
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