Ex Ministro de Defensa García, enfrenta la justicia por fraude en EEUU
Former El Salvador defense minister facing passport fraud charges
By Vanessa Blum*
Federal authorities announced immigration charges Monday against a former Salvadoran general and accused war criminal living in Plantation. (Foto Marta Lavandier: Former Salvadoran army Gen. Jose Guillermo García)
Jose Guillermo Garcia, a legal U.S. resident, is charged with lying to obtain the Salvadoran passport he used to re-enter the United States in 2006.
The charges are unrelated to his past in El Salvador. However, human rights groups say Garcia, who has been living in South Florida since 1989, oversaw massacres, torture and other abuses as El Salvador's Ministry of Defense from 1979 to 1983.
In 2002, a West Palm Beach federal jury held Garcia and another former Salvadoran official responsible for the brutal torture of a former church leader, doctor and professor. The three victims survived and fled to the United States.
The commanders were found civilly liable under the 1991 Torture Victim Protection Act and ordered to pay a $54.6 million verdict. Garcia, who is in his 70s and in poor health, has not been arrested, according to government officials. He is expected to surrender.
According to the charges, Garcia falsely told Salvadoran officials he had lost his passport and requested a replacement. Actually, the passport had been seized by U.S. authorities, the indictment states.
If convicted, Garcia faces up to 15 years in prison.
Copyright © 2009, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
By Vanessa Blum*
Federal authorities announced immigration charges Monday against a former Salvadoran general and accused war criminal living in Plantation. (Foto Marta Lavandier: Former Salvadoran army Gen. Jose Guillermo García)
Jose Guillermo Garcia, a legal U.S. resident, is charged with lying to obtain the Salvadoran passport he used to re-enter the United States in 2006.
The charges are unrelated to his past in El Salvador. However, human rights groups say Garcia, who has been living in South Florida since 1989, oversaw massacres, torture and other abuses as El Salvador's Ministry of Defense from 1979 to 1983.
In 2002, a West Palm Beach federal jury held Garcia and another former Salvadoran official responsible for the brutal torture of a former church leader, doctor and professor. The three victims survived and fled to the United States.
The commanders were found civilly liable under the 1991 Torture Victim Protection Act and ordered to pay a $54.6 million verdict. Garcia, who is in his 70s and in poor health, has not been arrested, according to government officials. He is expected to surrender.
According to the charges, Garcia falsely told Salvadoran officials he had lost his passport and requested a replacement. Actually, the passport had been seized by U.S. authorities, the indictment states.
If convicted, Garcia faces up to 15 years in prison.
Copyright © 2009, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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What else do you expect from a Military without respect of Human Beings as their fellows Salvadorans?
ReplyDeleteI hope this time the indictment can prove how this MOB OF MILITAR ONCE IN POWER BELIEVES THAT THEY CAN FOUL EVERYBODY AROUND THE WORLD.
IT WILL PROVE THE CONTRARY !
To the U S Justice Department: GO ON WITH THE INDICTMENT THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE CRIMINALS WORKING IN CENTRAL AMERCA AND EL SALVADOR AND GETTING RETIREMENTS GAINING ILEGALLY.
Jose Matatias Delgado Y Del Hambre.
This criminals never understand that they can run, but, they can't hide for ever. Bring him to justice, make him pay for all the suffering he caused to the salvadorean people.
ReplyDeleteEste asesino patologico al igual que El Mayor de La Muerte, finalmente se encuentra con la JUSTCIA en USA. La de la balanza tarda pero llega aunque sea en el INFIERNO.
ReplyDeleteAPPLY CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE NAME OF EL SALVADOR TO THAT CRIMINAL( and to all of the rest of ARENA's narcos who are still in the government,including Toño Saca).
ReplyDeleteSomehow they are paying their crimes! they can't hide forever, they fall alone...GOD BLESS
ReplyDeletethey should do the same to former kidnappers who tortured and killed people. don't you agree?
ReplyDeleteIt is regretable that the United States of America grants visas to croocks and criminals like Mr. Garcia, Vides Casanova and many other individuals with questionable records and most of them notoriously violators of human rights.
ReplyDeleteThe people of El Salvador, as well as many other decent human beings would appreciate and encourage the government of the United States to refrain from granting visas to ex public servants of recent administrations with questionable performance in office. This, I think, would be a token of friendship from the USA towards El Salvador.
May this not be a simple wishful thinking.
Quijo-t