Dianna Ortiz was a Catholic nun who was abducted and tortured while serving as a missionary in Guatemala, and later founded the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC).Ortiz traveled from the U.S.
to Guatemala in 1989, working with the poor there and teaching children to read. Guatemala was then embroiled in a violent civil war, with the U.S.
supporting its military as it fought Marxist guerrillas. She began receiving threatening letters, and in 1989, she was kidnapped.
She was tortured by captors who insisted she was working with subversives and demanded names. Ortiz was later removed from her captivity by a man she claimed was a U.S.
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