The coup leaders asked retired Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt to negotiate the departure of Lucas Guevara.

* 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.

Six officials, among them Efraín Ríos Montt and Óscar Humberto Mejía, were formally charged on 7 July 2006 to appear in the Spanish National Court after Spain's Constitutional Court ruled in September 2005, the Spanish Constitutional Court declaration that the " principle of universal jurisdiction prevails over the existence of national interests ", following the Menchu suit brought against the officials for atrocities committed in the Guatemalan Civil War

José Efraín Ríos Montt ( born June 16, 1926 ) is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general, and former president of Congress.

On July 7, Pedraz issued an international arrest warrant against Efraín Ríos Montt and former presidents Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores and Romeo Lucas García ( the latter of whom had died in May 2006 in Venezuela ).

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The Reagan administration also supplied funds and weapons to heavily militarily-influenced governments in El Salvador beginning in 1980 and Honduras, and to a lesser extent in Guatemala, which was ruled by right-wing military autocrat General Efraín Ríos Montt from 1982-83.

He then became involved in the bloodless coup that saw President Efraín Ríos Montt replaced by Óscar Humberto Mejía.

Then, on March 18, 2002, he resigned his seat in the Congress and from the FRG, declaring that he wished he had never accepted their leader Efraín Ríos Montt's invitation to join the party.

When in March 1982 General Efraín Ríos Montt took power in a coup he annulled the election results.

In March 1982, only one month after their formation, the URNG experienced an attack led by retired General Efraín Ríos Montt.

He obtained 34 percent of the votes, putting him well ahead of Álvaro Colom of the National Union of Hope ( 26 percent ) and former president Efraín Ríos Montt of the Guatemalan Republican Front ( 19 percent ).

The ruling Republican Front of Guatemala ( FRG ) nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera.

The party is led by retired general and former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt.

The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

In July 2004, Weller announced that he was engaged to three-term Guatemalan Congresswoman Zury Ríos Montt, daughter of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.

On 6 December 1982, during the de facto presidency of General Efraín Ríos Montt, over 200 people – including women, the elderly, and children – were killthere by commandos working as government forces as a part of the government's scorched earth policy, in which up to 200, 000 indigenous and Mayan people died.

The team is also known for their youth development system which has produced international players such as Enrique Borja, José Luis González " La Calaca ", Hugo Sánchez, Claudio Suárez, Alberto Garcia Aspe, Jorge Campos, Manuel Negrete, Luis Flores, Gerardo Torrado, Luis García, Braulio Luna, Israel Castro, Francisco Fonseca, Rafael Márquez Lugo, Efraín Juárez, Héctor Alfredo Moreno, and Pablo Barrera.

Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera ( February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981 ) was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981.

The last time the area was studied was in 1992 by Efraín Cárdenas.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce ( Alfredo Zalce Museum of Contemporary Art ) mostly contains works done by Alfredo Zalce and Efraín Vargas, both renowned Michoacán painters.

The movie was titled Life of Sin, and was directed by Efraín López Neris.

" Some of its member were composers Juan Piñera ( nephew of the renowned Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera ), Flores Chaviano, Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz, Danilo Avilés, Magaly Ruiz and Efraín Amador Piñero.

Among many other guitarists related to the Cuban Guitar School, we can mention the following names: Carlos Molina, Sergio Vitier, Flores Chaviano and Efraín Amador Piñero, as well as: Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz, Martín Pedreira, Lester Carrodeguas, Mario Daly, José Angel Pérez Puentes and Teresa Madiedo.

Speaking of Negroponte and other senior U. S. officials, an ex-Honduran congressman, Efraín Díaz, was quoted as saying:

Its leader, Efraín Ríos Montt, was at the time leader of Congress.

In the first round of the November 2003 elections ( see: Guatemala election, 2003 ), he backed former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed him.

The rector was Dr. Efraín Morote Best, an anthropologist who some believe later became the true intellectual leader of the " Shining Path movement.

Ríos Montt had been the candidate of the Christian Democracy Party in the 1974 presidential election and was widely regarded as having been denied his own victory through fraud.

Ríos Montt was by this time a lay pastor in the evangelical Protestant Church of the Word.

After a few months, Ríos Montt dismissed his junta colleagues and assumed the de facto title of " President of the Republic ".

Guerrilla forces and their leftist allies denounced Ríos Montt who sought to defeat the guerrillas with military actions and economic reforms ; in his words, " rifles and beans ".

In May 1982, the Conference of Catholic Bishops accused Ríos Montt of responsibility for growing militarization of the country and for continuing military massacres of civilians.

However, Ríos Montt won this partial victory at an enormous cost in civilian deaths.

On August 8, 1983, Ríos Montt was deposed by his own Minister of Defense, General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, who succeeded him as de facto president of Guatemala.

Seven people were killed in the coup, although Ríos Montt survived to found a political party ( the Guatemalan Republic Front ) and to be elected President of Congress in 1995 and again in 2000.

Controlled by the anti-corruption parties — the populist Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG ) headed by Ríos Montt, and the center-right National Advancement Party ( PAN ) — the new Congress began to move away from the corruption that characterized its predecessors.

Portillo was criticized during the campaign for his relationship with the FRG's chairman, former president Ríos Montt.

In July 2003, the Jueves Negro demonstrations rocked the capital, forcing the closing of the US embassy and the UN mission, as supporters of Ríos Montt called for his return to power.

Ríos Montt trailed a distant third with just 11 %.

Huehuetenango-born Ríos Montt remains one of the most controversial figures in Guatemala.

Ríos Montt has, at times, had close ties to the United States who gave him aid to fight against left-wing guerrillas.

Ríos Montt is best known outside Guatemala for heading a military regime ( 1982 – 1983 ) that was responsible for having defeated the guerrillas through the " guns and beans " campaign, maintaining " If you are with us, we ’ ll feed you, if not, we ’ ll kill you ".

Following the coup, Ríos Montt rose swiftly through the military.

In 1973, Ríos Montt resigned from his post at the Washington embassy to participate in the March 1974 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Opposition Front ( FNO ).

According to some accounts, Ríos Montt appeared to be on his way to a majority when the government abruptly halted the count and manipulated the results to make it appear Laugerud had won by a narrow plurality.

Ríos Montt denounced a " massive electoral fraud ", blaming Catholic priests who had questioned the mistreatment of the Catholic Mayans, and claimed that the priests were leftist agents.

On March 23, with the support of fellow soldiers, General Horacio Egberto Maldonado Schaad and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez, Ríos Montt seized power in a coup d ' état, that was quietly backed by the CIA, deposing General Romeo Lucas García.