http://luterano.blogspot.com/2013/08/prison-for-colonel-implicated-in-jesuit.html Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Prison for colonel implicated in Jesuit massacre and other rights violations<http://luterano.blogspot.com/2013/08/prison-for-colonel-implicated-in-jesuit.html>
It is a sentence for violating US immigration laws, not for committing human rights abuses in El Salvador, but there is no doubt that this is the first prison term for a high ranking Salvadoran military officer related to human rights abuses during El Salvador's civil war. Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano was sentenced today for immigration violations in the US, and will face potential extradition to Spain to face trial for the murder of the Jesuits in 1989. From the AP<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/salvadoran-military-leader-21-months-us-20081810> : Human rights advocates called it a step toward justice Tuesday when a federal judge in Boston sentenced a Salvadoran ex-colonel to prison on separate charges as Spain attempts to prosecute him for war crimes during his country's civil conflict. Inocente Orlando Montano will serve 21 months in a federal prison for immigration crimes, followed by a year of supervised release if U.S. government officials don't extradite him to Spain before then to stand trial for his alleged role in priest slayings known as the Jesuit massacre. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock meted out the penalty after a three-day sentencing hearing that included testimony implicating Montano in human rights abuses in El Salvador. The 70-year-old Montano, who denies such abuses, was once his country's vice minister of public security. He had been living in a Boston suburb for about a decade before his 2011 arrest, making $14 an hour in a candy factory. Montano admitted to lying on immigration forms, pleading guilty to three counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury. He also agreed not to contest deportation proceedings to return him to El Salvador after his prison term. ---------------------------------------- More presidential polls<http://luterano.blogspot.com/2013/08/more-presidential-polls.html> I have updated my tracking chart<https://app.box.com/s/frt3mweag77ieyugkmor> of public opinion polls asking Salvadorans about their choices in the 2014 presidential election with recently released polls from Inmore Research<http://elmundo.com.sv/arena-y-fmln-a-segunda-vuelta-2> , ARENA<http://www.laprensagrafica.com/arena-y-fmln-en-guerra-de-encuestas-electorales-internas> and Data Research<http://www.lapagina.com.sv/nacionales/85849/2013/08/21/Data-Research-Sanchez-Ceren-292-Saca-278-Quijano-274> . My rolling average of the last four polls released currently stands at: Sanchez Ceren -- 32.7% Norman Quijano -- 31.9% Tony Saca -- 20.7% As the tracking chart <https://app.box.com/s/frt3mweag77ieyugkmor> shows, poll results are varying quite a bit. The variation is caused mostly by differences in who is doing the polling and how they do it, rather than changing preferences of the voters over time. As the dean of Salvadoran bloggers, Ernesto Rivas recently posted<http://netorivasnet.blogspot.com/2013/08/encuestas-quien-creerle.html> : So many discrepancies can only lead one to a conclusion. All surveys are false and that is regrettable, because they rob citizens of an important tool to decide how to vote and, what is worse, are deceiving them, to accomplish some goal. UPDATE -- UTEC-CIOPS<http://www.lapagina.com.sv/nacionales/86088/2013/08/27/Encuesta-UTEC-357-ARENA-311-FMLN-y-149-UNIDAD> published a new poll this morning which I have added to the tracking chart. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
