Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun and outspoken opponent of torture, has died of cancer at the age of 62.

Washington.- In 1989, Sister Dianna Ortiz was abducted by members of Guatemala’s U.S.-trained military from the compound where she worked. Twenty-four hours later, she escaped. But within that brief period, her body had been burned with cigarettes, and she’d been raped, beaten and forced to torture a woman who was already near death.

In her memoir, “The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth,” Dianna Ortiz wrote about U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s repressive political system and the torture and murder of more than 150,000 Guatemalans. (RHC)