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Ríos and Montt
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.
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.
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.

Ríos and denounced
Ríos Montt denounced the ruling as judicial manipulation and, in a radio address, called on his followers to take to the streets to protest against this decision.
He attempted to revive the Democratic Alliance that brought Juan Antonio Ríos to power in 1942 but was unsuccessful in this endeavor, as the Socialist Party denounced the offer of alliance, refused to join and the popular front could not be reconstituted.
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 ).
However, the election was widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d ' état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.

Ríos and electoral
The FRG nominated Ríos Montt, in May 2003, for the November presidential election, but his candidacy was initially, and once again, rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower courts.
The results were too close to call, so a tribunal of honor ( electoral commission ) was constituted, and Juan Antonio Ríos was finally proclaimed the candidate of the left-wings ' coalition.
The results were too close to call, so a tribunal of honor ( electoral commission ) was constituted, and Juan Antonio Ríos was finally proclaimed the candidate of the left-wing coalition.
Zury Ríos studied at schools in Guatemala and Spain, where her father was assigned as military attaché following the 1974 presidential election, a process tainted by accusations of electoral fraud in which he had been a candidate.
The results were too close to call, so a tribunal of honor ( electoral commission ) was constituted, and Juan Antonio Ríos was finally proclaimed the candidate of a left-wings ' coalition of parties.

Ríos and fraud
Amidst allegations of fraud Ríos Montt lost to Kjell Eugenio Laugerud.
Ríos Montt, who 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, accepted the appointment.

Ríos and ",
Literary Modernism in Spain was influenced by the " disaster of ' 98 ", Regenerationism, and the Free Institution of Education ( founded by Giner de los Ríos ).
In 1917, Josefa de los Ríos, the inspiration for " Fuensanta ", died.

Ríos and Catholic
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.

Ríos and who
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.
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.
They were led by well known FRG militants, including several known congressmen, who were photographed by the press early in the morning while co-ordinating the actions, and the personal secretary of Zury Ríos Montt, the general's daughter.
The FALN was led by Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who was one of the FBI's most wanted criminals.
Nonetheless, Ríos was defeated in the internal presidential primaries by Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who got the nomination and then went on to win the presidential election of 1938.
The PS integrated into the new leftist coalition following Cerda's death, now named Democratic Alliance, which supported the candidacy of the Radical Juan Antonio Ríos, who was triumphantly elected.
The killing of Ojeda Ríos has been mourned by members of the Puerto Rican Independence movement and by Puerto Ricans in general, who have expressed their indignation through repeated protests.
In 1976, Ojeda Ríos founded the Boricua Popular Army ( Ejército Popular Boricua ), also known as Los Macheteros ( The Machete Wielders ), named after the sugar cane harvesters, who use machetes to cut the canes.
The year 1998 brought the peak of the career of Ríos, who reached the number 1 spot in the world.
Among the groups who play Afroargentine Candombe are: “ Tambores del Litoral ” ( union of “ Balikumba ” from Santa Fe, and “ Candombes del Litoral ” from Parana, Entre Ríos ), “ Bakongo ” ( these, have their own web page ) and the “ Comparsa Negros Argentinos ”.
*( Heteroflexible ): Julián Ríos, a predominantly straight porn actor who did gay porn and bisexual porn early in his career.
Among his notable students were Ástor Piazzolla ( who studied with him in 1941 ), Alcides Lanza, Waldo de los Ríos, Jacqueline Nova and Rafael Aponte-Ledée.
In the elections, Ibáñez won 44 %, losing to left-winger Juan Antonio Ríos, who had received the support of the anti-Ibáñez rightists led by Arturo Alessandri.
Two days before the internal primaries of the Radical Party, Gabriel González Videla, who represented the Radical Party's more leftist faction, returned to Chile to dispute the nomination to Juan Antonio Ríos.
His father was José de Godoy y Sánchez de los Ríos, de Cáceres y Méndez or José de Godoy y Sánchez de los Ríos Cáceres Morillo y Rodríguez, an impoverished Army Colonel of aristocratic background born in Badajoz on November 14, 1731 and baptized in his P. del Sagrario nine days old, who later became Governor of the Council of Treasure ( Gobernador de Consejo de Hacienda ), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III and Saint Fernando since 1794, Colonel of the Provincial Militia of Extremadura and Perpetual Regedor ( Rector ) of the City of Badajoz, his homeland.
Wilfredo ' Willy ' Daniel Caballero Lazcano ( born 28 January 1981 in Santa Elena, Entre Ríos ) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Málaga CF in Spain, as a goalkeeper.
The 1990s began with a great group of player and a great fans base which became known as La Tiburomaniam who cheer own fan favorite players Jorge Comas Ríos, Del Olmo, Becerril, Medina, Ramírez, González China under management of the Brazilian Edu.
In the 1996-97 the new owners signed great players such as the internally known José Mari Bakero who had just finished a long career with Spanish giant FC Barcelona along with key players from the Colombian national team Leonel Álvarez, Iván Valenciano, Alexis Mendoza mating important players and fan favorite goalkeeper Adolfo Ríos. With the hype of the club's new players many gave the club a chance of taking the league title but after a tournament field with injuries and with a divided locker-room the club managed to gain only 9 points and finished last leaving the club in relegation problems for the nest campaign.

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