Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Philadelphia have deported a 75-year-old man, Alvarado Benitez, to El Salvador. Benitez is wanted in El Salvador for his involvement in death squad killings during the country's civil war.
The death squad members are accused of kidnapping, torturing, and murdering five civilians in the village of San Andrés in eastern El Salvador in April 1981. These death squads were right-wing paramilitary groups opposing Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, particularly the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMNL), during the civil war that lasted over 12 years starting in October 1979.
