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    José Efraín Ríos Montt (Spanish: [efɾaˈin ˈrios ˈmont]; 16 June 1926 – 1 April 2018) was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served...
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    2015 elections. Zury Ríos Sosa was born in January 1968, the third child of José Efraín Ríos Montt and María Teresa Sosa Ávila. Ríos Sosa's father, a former...
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    1978). The PID lost its grip on Guatemalan politics when General Efraín Ríos Montt, together with a group of junior army officers, seized power in a...
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    written after the suspension of the prior constitution as part of Efraín Ríos Montt's Coup d'état on March 23, 1982. His regime suspended the constitution...
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    during the Ríos Montt period, mostly within the first eight months between April and November 1982. After overthrowing General Efrain Ríos Montt in a coup...
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    general Efraín Ríos Montt, a dictator accused of genocide in Guatemala during the period when he was in power from March 1982 to August 1983. Mario Montt was...
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    1989 by former president and dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and formally registered in 1990. It chose Ríos Montt as its candidate, but he was not allowed...
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  • Puerto Rican actor Efraín Medina (born 1979), Mexican singer Efraín Morote (1921–1989), Peruvian anthropologist Efraín Ríos Montt (1926–2018), former...
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    the party then led by retired general and deposed military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt (1926–2018). In 2014, ten years after his departure from the presidency...
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    Baja Verapaz department, Guatemala. On July 18, 1982, while General Efraín Ríos Montt was President of Guatemala, a massacre was committed there by government...
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    resignation of Francisco Villagrán. He served until the military coup of Efraín Ríos Montt in March 1982. Military Government Junta (1957) Colonel Óscar Mendoza...
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    election of 1974, General Kjell Laugerud García defeated General Efraín Ríos Montt, a candidate of the Christian Democratic Party, who claimed that he...
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    Pacific Ocean ("death flights"). Along with former Presidents José Efraín Ríos Montt and Fernando Romeo Lucas García, President Mejía was charged with...
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    General Efraín Ríos Montt, along with Horacio Maldonado Shaad colonels and Francisco Gordillo. On 2 June 1982, international journalists interviewed Ríos Montt...
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  • National Opposition Front's candidate was also an army officer, General Efraín Ríos Montt, whose running mate was economist Alberto Fuentes Mohr. The National...
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  • and early sound films Efraín Ríos Montt (1926–2018), former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general Jorge Montt (1845–1922), vice admiral...
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  • grant. On 6 December 1982, during the de facto presidency of General Efraín Ríos Montt, over 200 people were killed in Dos Erres by commandos working as...
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    military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera. A constitutional ban on former coup leaders (Ríos Montt during 1982–83)...
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  • film directed by Pamela Yates about the trial of Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide against the country's indigenous Maya population in the...
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    but most acts against humanity occurred during Efraín Ríos Montt's presidency (1982–1983). Ríos Montt instituted a campaign of state terror intended to...
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  • sculptor and painter June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014) June 16 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. 2018) June...
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    displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. In May 2013 Efraín Ríos Montt was found guilty by a Guatemala court of having ordered the deaths...
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  • Guatemalan court for crimes against humanity, in the genocide case against Efraín Ríos Montt. The film centers on the experiences of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta...
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    the Guatemalan Civil War. Two Guatemalan heads of state, General Efraín Ríos Montt, who in 2013 was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity...
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  • camps in Mexico following the counterinsurgency campaign of dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. Although Cockburn had occasionally touched on political themes in...
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    Guatemala. Former president Efraín Ríos Montt was born in Huehuetenango (in 1926). His younger brother, Mario Enrique Ríos Montt the emeritus auxiliary bishop...
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  • early 1980s, the government of Guatemala, under the leadership of Efraín Ríos Montt, carried out a massive campaign to quell both the rebellions largely...
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    forces. After assuming power in March 1982, de facto President Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt embarked on a military campaign that largely succeeded in breaking...
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    República. None of the three candidates for president— Kjell Laugerud, Efraín Ríos Montt or Ernesto Paíz Novales— received 50% of the vote, although Laugerud...
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    proclaimed candidate for vice president by Valor along with Zury Ríos –daughter of Efraín Ríos Montt– as candidate for president. He graduated in 1984 from the...
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