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 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.

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.

Despite the financial obstacles, the economy of Entre Ríos has grew to a size near that of Buenos Aires, with the decline of saladeros and the growth of wool production.

The Codex Ríos has a representation of a god labelled " hometeule "-iconographic analysis shows the deity hometeule to be identical to Tonacatecuhtli.

" Strawberry Fields Forever " has also been covered by Trey Anastasio, The Bee Gees, The Bobs, Justin Currie, Noel Gallagher, Richie Havens, David Lanz, Cyndi Lauper, Eugene Chadbourne, Campfire Girls, Hayseed Dixie, Laurence Juber, Zlatko Manojlović, Marilyn Manson, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Peter Gabriel, Plastic Penny, Mother's Finest, Odetta, Andy Partridge, The Residents, Miguel Ríos, The Runaways, The Shadows, Gwen Stefani, Tomorrow, Transatlantic, The Ventures, Cassandra Wilson, XTC, and Ultraviolet Sound.

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.

But Ríos Montt has not been charged with any crime and, on January 31, 2006, manslaughter charges for the death of Ramírez were dropped against Ríos Montt.

( Zury Ríos has also used the combined parental surname Ríos Sosa, but in Guatemala she is nowadays best known by her father's name, Ríos Montt ; her personal website uses the hybrid married form " Ríos-Montt de Weller ".

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.

Ríos ' career has been marked by a number of controversies.

The municipality has a land area of 3, 464. 41 km² ( 1, 337. 62 sq mi ) and includes many other outlying communities, the largest of which are Gabriel Leyva Solano ( Benito Juárez ), Juan José Ríos, and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.

He also has worked with 2006 U. S. Open champion Maria Sharapova, Daniela Hantuchova, Jelena Janković, Nicole Vaidišová, Sabine Lisicki, Sara Errani, Tommy Haas, Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova, and Marcelo Ríos.

Another of his daughters, María Creel Garza Ríos, declared that she has joined his 2012 campaign for the PAN Presidential Nomination.

UACh has apart from the campuses several properties spread through Los Ríos and Los Lagos Region such as Parque Arboretum in northern Isla Teja, the Calfuco field station in the coast near Niebla and the forests of San Pablo de Tregua in the Andean foothills.

It has an area 34, 500 km², in nine provinces: Los Ríos, Guayas, Bolívar, Manabí, Cañar, Pichincha, Azuay, Chimborazo and Cotopaxi.

In singles play, Santoro defeated 18 players who were ranked World No. 1 at some time during their careers: Novak Djokovic, Jimmy Connors, Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Thomas Muster, Marcelo Ríos, Gustavo Kuerten, Carlos Moyà, Pat Rafter, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick and Roger Federer ( with whom he has a 2 – 9 record ).

This statement has been repeated throughout the years by numerous players including Ivan Lendl, Marat Safin, Marcelo Ríos, and Jan Kodeš ( despite his 1973 victory at Wimbledon ).

The species has been recorded at the Yaguarón River near the Cuchilla de Mangrullo, as well as in the Sierra de los Ríos.

He has collaborated and composed songs for Ana Belén, Olga Román and Miguel Ríos amongst others.