Creighton graduate, historian builds case to deport Salvadoran leader who oversaw crimes

[Omaha Steve]

Ann Schneider, 44, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and education from Creighton University, has spent five years helping build the case against Gen. Vides.

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POSTED: MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015 12:30 AM
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist

Ann Schneider was fixing dinner in her suburban Washington, D.C., home this month when a text came from her boss: Check your email.

Ann, a 44-year-old former Nebraskan, works in a little-known unit within the Department of Homeland Security. She is a historian who builds cases against foreigners in the U.S. who are suspected of human rights abuses abroad.

Her hands shook as she read the email’s subject line: Vides is removable.

Vides is Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, a 77-year-old former defense minister and head of the National Guard in El Salvador. After presiding over that country’s brutal 1980s civil war, Vides moved to Florida, where he has lived comfortably for more than two decades.

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