Writing Crime

“Writing Crime: Transmigrated, Border Subjects and International Violence,” a talk by Professor Ileana Rodriguez, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University.

“In this talk, I examine the case of Doris Ivania Jimenez, a woman who was raped and murdered on November 21, 2006, in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Implicated in the crime are Eric Stanley Volz, Julio Martin Chamorro Lopez, Armando Agustin Llanes Navarro and Nelson Antonio Lopez Danglas. Volz and Chamorro were indicted; Llanes and Danglas were exonerated. Volz came to Nicaragua between 2003 and 2004 to establish a real estate business and promote tourism in San Juan del Sur. He was 28 years old. In subsequent investigations, mediating the intervention of a US law firm and the work of a former CIA agent, himself under investigation by the Italian police, Volz was released. He left the country by way of a specially chartered helicopter after spending some time in jail.”