José Alberto Medrano

José Alberto Medrano was a Salvadoran general who, starting in the 1960s, headed ANSESAL (Agencia Nacional de Servicios Especiales, or Salvadoran National Security Agency) and ORDEN (Organización Democrática Nacionalista, or the Democratic Nationalist Organization), a paramilitary group supported by the Green Berets. ORDEN was later accused by Amnesty International of using "clandestine terror against government opponents."