They deport a Guatemalan linked to the massacre of 199 people in Las Dos Erres
The immigration authorities of the United States deported on Tuesday Gilberto Jordan, a former member of the Kaibiles, an elite military force from Guatemala who killed more than 200 men, women and children in the community of Las Dos Erres (Guatemala) in December 1982
In July 2019, Jordan, 64, pleaded guilty by admitting that he had been part of this unit and that he had participated in the massacre, and also acknowledged that the first person killed during the massacre was a baby who was thrown into the pit from town.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) detailed in a statement that some twenty Kaibiles traveled to this town, in the north of the country, during the civil war in search of weapons and insurgents opposed to the government that were supposedly responsible from an ambush to a convoy of the nearby army in which they had stolen several dozen rifles.
After arriving in the town, the military began the search for weapons, and when they did not find them, they began to kill, torture and rape the inhabitants of the town for two days, he said.
Jordan moved to the United States and in 1996, in the process to become a US citizen, he denied having been a military officer or having committed any war crime during the entire process, for which he received citizenship three years later, which was revoked.
In May 2010, the Department of Homeland Security arrested Jordan by discovering his past as a military man and his connection with the deaths of these people, for which he was sentenced to spend ten years in a federal prison.
The ex-military landed in Guatemala and has been made available to the country's authorities, ICE said in a statement.
Along with Jordan there are already three participants in the massacre who have been deported by ICE, along with Pedro Pimentel Río and Santos López Alonzo.
Currently, the Department of Homeland Security has more than 180 active investigations concerning people who have violated human rights, and is on the trail of more than 1,625 possible indications in this regard in 95 countries.
In addition, since 2003, ICE has obtained deportation orders from the United States against more than 1,048 people who had violated human rights or were suspected of doing so.
