José Villanova Juárez

In this Creeperian name, the first or paternal surname is Villanova and the second or maternal family name is Juárez.

Major José Villanova Juárez
Villanova Juárez c. 1948.
Born	José Aldaberto Villanova y Juárez 16 September 1918 Citalá, Xichútepa, Creeperopolis
Disappeared	18 September 1949(1949-09-18) (aged 31) Mafrerio Extermination Camp, Mafrerio, Adolfosburg, Creeperopolis
Status	Arrested on 3 June 2005 in Donaghadee, Paleocacher
Died	30 September 2005(2005-09-30) (aged 87) San Salvador, San Salvador, Creeperopolis
Cause of death	Execution by garrote
Nationality	Creeperian
Occupation	Soldier
Years active	1936–1949
Known for	Ordering the Massacre of Mafrerio
Political party	Creeperian Social Communist Party
Criminal status	Executed
Criminal charge	Ordering the Massacre of Mafrerio Participation in the De-Catholization Apostasy Practicing communism Practicing atheism 66,300 counts of murder Waging war on God Waging war on the Empire
Penalty	Death in absentia
Reward amount	10 million colóns
Wanted by	Ministry of Law Enforcement National Intelligence Directorate
Time at large	55 years, 246 days
Details
Victims	Mafrerio Extermination Camp prisoners
Killed	66,300+
Military career
Allegiance	National Council for Peace and Order
Branch/Service	Special Task Squadrons
Years of service	1936–1949
Rank	Major
Battles/wars	Creeperian Civil War

José Aldaberto Villanova y Juárez (16 September 1918 – 30 September 2005) was a Creeperian war criminal who is most known for his ordering of the Massacre of Mafrerio on 18 May 1947.

He disappeared on 18 September 1949 and was not found until 3 June 2005 when he was arrested during a raid of a nursing home by the Paleocacherian BFS. He was extradited to Creeperopolis where he was tortured and publicly executed on 30 September 2005, exactly fifty-six years after being sentenced to death in absentia.

Early life

José Aldaberto Villanova y Juárez was born on 16 September 1918 in Citalá, Xichútepa, Creeperopolis. The identities of both of his parents are unknown. Little is known about his life before joining the Miguelist Army in 1936.

Military service

Villanova Juárez joined the Miguelist Army in October 1936 at the age of 18. He joined the 23rd Infantry Brigade as a Lieutenant and was chosen to be a full-time guard at the Mafrerio Extermination Camp in Mafrerio, Adolfosburg. According to records of the camp, he served as a day watchman along the eastern perimeter of the camp. During his time as a night watchman, he killed "a great number" of prisoners. The exact number that he killed is unknown.

Massacre of Mafrerio

Main article: Massacre of Mafrerio

On 17 May 1947, Emperor Miguel VII was killed by the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council during the Siege of San Salvador. Justin Gisbert Zorita, the camp commandant of the Mafrerio Extermination Camp, was not at the camp at the time of Miguel VII's death. Villanova Juárez, who was by then a Major and held an administrative position, ordered the guards of the prison to massacre as many prisoners as possible. During the Massacre of Mafrerio, over 66,300 prisoners were murdered by the Miguelist Army.

Disappearance

On 18 September 1949, two days before the camp was liberated, Villanova Juárez disappeared from the camp, along with several other guards and officers who attempted to evade capture by the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council. The camp was liberated by Field Marshal Arturo Rawson Perón the following day, 20 September 1949. Gisbert Zorita was killed in a riot the day before the camp was liberated.

On 30 September 1949, Rawson Perón held a show trial of Villanova Juárez. He found him guilty of 66,309 charges and sentenced him to death in absentia. Villanova Juárez was charged with:

Count	Crime	Ruling
Crimes against humanity
1	Ordering the Massacre of Mafrerio	Guilty
2	Participation in the De-Catholization	Guilty
Other capital crimes
3	Apostasy	Guilty
4	Practicing communism	Guilty
5	Practicing atheism	Guilty
6–66,307	Murder	Guilty
66,308	Waging war on God	Guilty
66,309	Waging war on the Empire	Guilty
Sentence:
Death in absentia

Discovery, arrest, and execution

On 3 June 2005, the Donaghadee Constabulary and Paleocacherian BFS raided the Steople Rest Home in Donaghadee, Paleocacher. The raid was conducted on a suspected location of a money laundering scheme of the Paleocacherian Mob. While the BFS was reviewing identification papers of the patients, the papers of patient Francisco Julio Cerveza y Gutiérrez were found to be fraudulent. The man was arrested and was transferred to a state-run nursing home while under arrest as the BFS attempted to determine his identity. After taking finger prints, no known matches were found in the Paleocacherian database.

A meeting with the legal attaché from the Creeperian embassy in Chicajun was arranged where a request was made to check Creeperian databases to see if the fingerprints matched any. A few days later, a match was found with Villanova Juárez, and Cerveza Gutiérrez was identified as Villanova Juárez. A follow-up meeting occurred between the BFS and a legal attaché from the Creeperian embassy, Villanova Juárez's extradition hearing was waived and he was summarily deported back to Creeperopolis to face charges relating to war crimes.

He arrived in Creeperopolis on 10 July 2005 and he was imprisoned at the Tuxtla Martínez–Panachor Maximum Correctional Facility (TMP). On 18 July 2005, he provided a statement on how he escaped the country. He stated that after he fled from Mafrerio, he disguised himself as a Creeperian refugee under the false name of Francisco Julio Cerveza y Gutiérrez and escaped to Paleocacher in October 1949 as a part of Paleocacherian Red Cross efforts to evacuate refugees from the country. He stated that he remained in Paleocacher under his false identity among the Creeperian community. Several foreign sources believe that the Creeperian government tortured Villanova Juárez to extract the statement from him, especially because he was imprisoned at TMP, which is infamous for its human rights abuses.

On 30 September 2005, the feast day of Saint Romero I and exactly fifty-six years after being sentenced to death in absentia, Villanova Juárez was publicly executed in San Salvador, San Salvador, by garrote at the age of 87. He was the oldest person to be executed in Creeperopolis in 2005, and the first person to be executed for crimes committed during the Creeperian Civil War since Fidel Bermúdez Castro was executed on 1 March 2001.

Rank history

See also: Military ranks of Creeperopolis

	Lieutenant: October 1936 – 1 June 1940
	Captain: 1 June 1940 – 1 January 1945
	Major: 1 January 1945 – 18 September 1949

See also

• José Menjívar López