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

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 %.

* 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

Efraín Ríos Montt utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in the death of approximately 10, 000 indigenous peoples, and causing 100, 000 to leave their homes.

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

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.

However, suitable habitat remains in El Palmar National Park in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos as well as southern Brazil, however, no rumours of the bird's continued existence in the past several decades have been proven credible.

In 1974, DCG was part of the National Opposition Front that nominated Efraín Ríos Montt as its candidate and emerged as the largest opposition force in Guatemala ; however, the legality of that election, in which Ríos Montt lost to Kjell Laugerud García, remains a matter of dispute.

Gualeguaychú in the east of Entre Ríos province is the most important Carnival city and has one of the largest parades, with a similar afro-American musical background to Brazilian or Uruguayan Carnival.

The film also inspired Chilean cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger to create Condorito, one of Latin America's most ubiquitous cartoon characters.

Disappointed with Pedro as the image that the outside world had of Chile, cartoonist René Ríos Boettiger ( Pepo ) started one of the most famous Latin American comic magazines: Condorito.

By the end of 1982, Ríos Montt, claiming that the war against the leftist guerrillas had been won, said that the government's work was one of " techo, trabajo, y tortillas " (" roofs, work, and tortillas ").

Ríos Montt along with several other men who served high positions in the military governments of the early 1980s are defendants in several lawsuits alleging genocide and crimes against humanity ; one of these cases was filed in 1999 by Nobel Peace Prize-winning K ' iche '- Maya activist, Rigoberta Menchú.

The FALN was led by Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who was one of the FBI's most wanted criminals.

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

In the meantime, Juan Antonio Ríos had become president and one of the principal leaders of the Radical Party.

In 1914 Sisko Chukiwanka Ayulo and Julián Palacios Ríos recorded what may be the first of many attempts to have one alphabet for both Quechua and Aymara.

With the acquisition of veteran Bobby Ríos in 1990, however, the Leones formed one of the most feared roster line-ups in the league.

In late March 2006, the Puerto Rico Department of Justice sued federal authorities, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, seeking an injunction to force the federal government authorities to provide the Commonwealth government with information related to the operation in which Ojeda Ríos died, as well as another one in which the FBI searched the homes of independence supporters affiliated with Los Macheteros.

Ríos became the first male player from Latin America to be ranked world number one in juniors.

On August 10, however, Ríos recovered the number one spot for another two weeks.

Ríos also reached the semifinals at the Hamburg Masters losing to Marat Safin, one of the new stars of the circuit.

1 player Marcelo Ríos as the top Chilean in the singles rankings and was one of the most improved players on the ATP circuit, jumping 123 positions in the ATP singles rankings.

In 2003, prior to the election, Zury Ríos was accused of being one of the organizers of jueves negro (" Black Thursday ").

The demonstration degenerated into a bloody riot that left one man dead ( journalist Héctor Fernando Ramírez ); it was, however, perceived as having been successful in getting General Ríos Montt's name on the presidential ballot when, a week later, the Constitutional Court overturned the Supreme Court's ban.

Samuel Eichelbaum ( 14 November 1894-4 May 1967 ), born the son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Villa Domínguez, Entre Ríos, Argentina, Eichelbaum became one of the leading playwrights in the first half of the 20th century in Argentina.

During one of these trips, he met Josefa de los Ríos, a distant relative eight years his senior, who made a deep impression on him.

The city is located at one end of the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge, which joins Buenos Aires with the province of Entre Ríos and allows communication with the Argentine Mesopotamia and from there to Brazil and Uruguay.

She is one of the most important translators of Latin American fiction in the past century, translating the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Julián Ríos and of Álvaro Mutis.

El Palmar National Park ( in Spanish, Parque Nacional El Palmar ) is one of Argentina's national parks, located on the center-west of the province of Entre Ríos, mid-way between the cities of Colón ( 54 km ) and Concordia ( 60 km ).

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces ( more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge ).

Rocamora was also the official founder of Gualeguaychú and Concepción del Uruguay and the one who named the province Entre Ríos (" Between Rivers ").