Ríos Montt's brief presidency was probably the most violent period of the 36-year internal conflict, which resulted in thousands of deaths of mostly unarmed indigenous civilians.

Many charge that some of the worst human rights violations of the internal conflict were committed under Ríos Montt's rule.

* 1982 – 268 campesinos (" peasants " or " country people ") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.

Two Truth Commissions, the REMHI report, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, and the CEH report, conducted by the United Nations as part of the 1996 Accords of Firm and Durable Peace, documented widespread human rights abuses committed by Ríos Montt's military regime, including widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous population.

Ríos Montt's brother Mario is a Catholic bishop, and in 1998 succeeded the assassinated Bishop Juan Gerardi as head of the human rights commission uncovering the truth of the disappearances associated with the military and his brother.

Given Ríos Montt's staunch anticommunism and ties to the United States, the Reagan administration continued to support the general and his regime, paying a visit to Guatemala City in December 1982.

The Mayan Indian and campesino population suffered greatly under Ríos Montt's government.

Guatemalan campaigners on behalf of Maya survivors of the civil war, such as Nobel laureate and Mayan human rights advocate Rigoberta Menchú, were amazed, in March 1999, when U. S. President Bill Clinton apologised for U. S. support of Ríos Montt's regime.

The same August President Portillo admitted involvement of the Guatemalan government in human rights abuses over the previous 20 years, including for two massacres that took place during Ríos Montt's presidency.

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.

Days later the ban on Ríos Montt's candidacy was revoked by the Supreme Court.

Some claimed that the FRG rigged this vote by placing a majority of their own party supporters in it, echoing Ríos Montt's claim that the judiciary was rigged against him when the decision did not find in his favor.

Ríos Montt's daughter, Zury, is the party's floor leader.

On 20 November 2004, at a ceremony held in General Ríos Montt's compound near Antigua Guatemala, and with the general presiding at the ceremony, she married U. S. Congressman Jerry Weller ( R-Illinois ).

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.

* Zury Ríos Montt's personal web page

* Zury Ríos Montt's congressional web page

Ríos Montt's brief presidency was probably the most violent period of the 36-year internal conflict, which resulted in about 200, 000 deaths of mostly unarmed, mostly indigenous civilians.

On 15 February 1977, army corporal Osvaldo Ramón Ríos was killed after his patrol came under fire from a group of Montoneros that had barricaded themselves inside a house in the Ezpeleta suburb of Buenos Aires.

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

For his part, Ríos Montt admitted in a July 2006 press conference that there were " excesses " committed by the army during his rule, but strenuously denied his culpability.

On July 9, 1816, an assembly of representatives from all of the Provinces ( except for Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, Corrientes and the Eastern Province, which formed a Federal League ) met at the Congress of Tucumán, and declared the Independence of Argentina from the Spanish Crown with provisions for a national Constitution.

Ángel Fernández de los Ríos in 1868 proposed the creation of a large wooded area that would travel all around the Plaza de Oriente, in order to give a better view of the Royal Palace.

Beginning with Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, he ensured that authors like Václav Havel, Jacobo Timerman, Faunier Hernán Ríos Jaramillo and Wei Jingsheng were all published around the world.

The country's guerrilla forces and their leftist allies denounced Ríos Montt, who sought to defeat the guerrilla insurgency with a combination of military action and economic reforms ; in his words, " beans and rifles " ( frijoles y fusiles ).

The Guayaquil Province included territory of what now is Peruvian Tumbes, and today's Los Ríos and El Oro.

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.

Ríos ' administration — continuing the Aguirre Cerda policies — focused on the development of the steel, power and oil industries.

Later in August, he lost again to another Chilean — Marcelo Ríos — on his US Open debut.

As of June 6, 2006, Ríos was 1st in the league in batting average ( among qualified batters ) with a. 359 average, along with 11 home runs — a new personal best only 60 games into the 2006 season, and 43 RBIs.

* Jesús Ríos — did not finish (→ no ranking )

* Rocío Ríos — 2: 30. 50 (→ 5th place )

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.

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.

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

In 1526, Pedrarias was superseded as Governor of Panama by Pedro de los Ríos, and retired to León in Nicaragua, where he was named its new governor on July 1, 1527.

Buenos Aires Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas exerted a growing hegemony over the rest of the country during his 1835-1852 Government and resisted several Unitarian uprisings, but was finally defeated in 1852 by a coalition Army gathered by Entre Ríos Federalist Governor Justo José de Urquiza, who accused Rosas of not complying with Federal Pact provisions for a National Constitution.

1 ranking was challenged by Chilean player Marcelo Ríos.

In June 2007, Fabiana Ríos, a National Deputy enroled in ARI, was elected Governor of the Province of Tierra del Fuego, becoming the first governor belonging to this party.

Ríos perceived that the character Pedro, a small, incapable airplane, was a slight to Chileans and created a comic that could supposedly rival Disney's comic characters.

He was governor of Entre Ríos during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas, governor of Buenos Aires with powers delegated from the other provinces.

He retired to San José Palace, his residence in Entre Ríos, where he ruled until he was assassinated at age 69 ( along with his sons Justo and Waldino ) by followers of dissident and political rival Ricardo López Jordán.

By 1681, the area of Presidio was known as La Junta de los Ríos, or the Junction of the Rivers.

In painting, magical realism is a term often interchanged with post-expressionism, as Ríos also shows, for the very title of Roh's 1925 essay was " Magical Realism: Post-Expressionism.

Condorito was created by the Chilean cartoonist René Ríos, known as Pepo.

The group has claimed responsibility for numerous bombings, attacks against the United States armed forces, and armed robberies since 1978, and was led primarily by former FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Filiberto Ojeda Ríos until his death in 2005.

The Boricua Popular Army was organized in the 1970s by Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Juan Enrique Segarra-Palmer and Orlando González Claudio.

* On September 23, 2005, the anniversary of " el Grito de Lares " (" The Cry of Lares ") members of the FBI San Juan field office surrounded a modest home in the outskirts of the town of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, where Ojeda Ríos was believed to be hiding.

The FBI claims that it was performing surveillance of the area because of reports that Ojeda Ríos had been seen in the home.

In their press release, the FBI stated their surveillance team was detected, and proceeded to serving an arrest warrant against Ojeda Ríos.

During June 2003, Yolandita was part of a line of witnesses in a domestic violence trial with actor and model Osvaldo Ríos as defendant.

José Martí was killed in battle against Spanish troops at the Battle of Dos Ríos, near the confluence of the rivers Contramaestre and Cauto, on May 19, 1895.