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	efrain rios montt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ríos Montt is best known for heading a military regime (1982–1983) and presiding over some of the worst atrocities of Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which ended with a peace treaty in 1996.
		In 1950 Ríos Montt graduated as a cadet at the School of the Americas in Panama, which educated cadets loyal to Washington in coup-plotting, political repression, torture, assassination, and strong anticommunist propaganda.
		The unpopularity of General Ríos Montt was widespread, and he was disliked by many Roman Catholics for his evangelical Protestantism and for his refusal to grant clemency to six guerrillas during the visit of Pope John Paul II.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /efrain_rios_montt.html (1899 words)

	Efraín Ríos Montt - from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
		In 1950 Ríos Montt graduated as a cadet at the School of the Americas in Panama, which at the time educated students in counterinsurgency tactics for the purposes of combating potential "communist" influence in the region.
		This was an attempt by Ríos Montt to win over the large indigenous population to the rule of the law, unleashing a scorched earth attack on the nation's Mayan population, particularly in the departments of Quiché and Huehuetenango, that, according to an investigative United Nations commission, resulted in the annihilation of nearly 600 villages.
		The FRG nominated Montt in May 2003 for the forthcoming November presidential election, but his candidacy was initially, and once again, rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Efrain_Rios_Montt (2644 words)

	Efrain Rios Montt
		Efrain Rios Montt [Guatemala's former president] is known as "Guatemala's Pinochet," but until a few months ago, his fate seemed to be quite different from that of Chile's former dictator.
		Rios Montt's position was not even jeopardized by the denunciation of Nobel Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchu before Spain's High Court, in which she accused Rios Montt of genocide.
		Rios Montt is now the president of the National Congress, the permanent leader of the political party he created, and he wields powerful influence over political life.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Zeroes/Efrain_Rios_Montt.html (1499 words)

	Encyclopedia: Efrain Rios Montt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926 in Huehuetenango, Guatemala) is a former President of Guatemala and former president of the Congress of Guatemala.
		Human-rights groups say Ríos Montt, a staunch anticommunist who has had ties to the United States for over five decades (via the Pentagon's School of the Americas, the CIA, presidential administrations, and the religious right), was among the bloodiest strongmen in Latin American history.
		In 1950 Ríos Montt graduated as a cadet at the School of the Americas in Panama, which at the time educated students in jungle warfare tactics for the purposes of combatting perceived communist influence in the region.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Efrain-Rios-Montt (2221 words)

	efraín ríos montt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Efraín Ríos Montt (born 1926) is a former President of Guatemala.
		Human rights groups say Ríos Montt, a staunch anti-communist who has had ties to the United States for over five decades (the Pentagon's School of the Americas, the CIA, presidential administrations, and the religious right), was among the bloodiest dictators in Latin American history.
		Ríos Montt now serves as president of the Guatemalan National Congress, the country's legislature, and has run for president two other times since the toppling of his dictatorship.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Efra%EDn_R%EDos_Montt.html (1709 words)

	Efraín Ríos Montt killer file
		Ríos Montt is meanwhile reelected for a third term as head of the FRG on 19 June 1998.
		Montt's political career appears to have come to an end and, with his immunity from prosecution set to expire when his term as a politician ends on 14 January 2004, he now faces the prospect of having to stand trial for the human rights abuses that occurred during his dictatorship.
		Ríos Montt was not the only brutal despot to rule in Guatemala and half of the estimated 200,000 dead were murdered before and after his brief reign, but he was the worst, the most ruthless and unforgiving, despite his "born-again" Christian beliefs.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/montt.htm (5504 words)

	Scoop: Efrain Rios Montt's Bid for Guatemalan Presidency
		Rios Montt, who came to power in March of 1982 through a coup d’etat and was deposed by a counter coup 18 months later, has been accused by humanitarian groups, national investigative committees, and United Nations agencies alike of waging genocide against tens of thousands of Mayan civilians during his brief reign.
		Rios Montt’s supporters contend that he was a “God-fearing” leader who was able to restore order to a chaotic, violent, and crime-ridden country.
		Montt’s May election bid was rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower elections courts, as well as by the second highest court in the nation.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0307/S00251.htm (2025 words)

	Killer Candidate - Efrain Rios Montt Ex-general threatens Guatemalan election
		For months, Rios Montt and supporters in his Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (Guatemalan Republican Front or FRG) appealed to the country's confusing and overlapping juris~ dictional court system to allow his candi' dacy, arguing that the constitutional clause is not retroactive and therefore does not apply to coup leaders who took power before it was enacted.
		Rios Montt called off the demonstrations the next day and a week later the Constitutional Court allowed his candidacy.
		Fraud is a chief concern because frequent press reports indicate that Rios Montt and the FRG have repeatedly violated the electoral pact signed by all the parties at the beginning of the race that pledged no use of intimidation, violence or state resources.
	thirdworldtraveler.com /Central_America/KillerCandidate_RiosMontt.html (693 words)

	GLOBAL RESISTANCE: We are everywhere - NI 338 - Worldbeaters: Efrain Rios Montt
		Efrain is also an ordained minister of the authoritarian, right-wing Gospel Outreach/Verbo evangelical church, based in California and one of several such churches that have been expanding fast in the region, at the expense of the Catholic Church.
		General Rios Montt’s evangelical zeal is linked to the military ‘education’ he received – like many of his peers in Latin America –; from the School of the Americas, run by the US military in Panama.
		The current President of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo – a former guerrilla – is Rios Montt’s protégé.
	www.newint.org /issue338/worldbeaters.htm (790 words)

	Encyclopedia: EfraÃn RÃos Montt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guatemala is a signatory to the Rio Pact and is a member of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA).
		However, during tense but peaceful presidential elections held on November 9, Ríos Montt received just 11 percent of the votes, putting him a distant third behind businessman Óscar Berger, head of the conservative National Grand Alliance (PAN), and Álvaro Colom of the National Unity of Hope (UNE).
		Rigoberta Menchú; sought to have Ríos Montt tried in Spanish courts in 1999 for crimes committed against Spanish citizens.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Efra%EDn-R%EDos-Montt (5565 words)

	Sandcastles Ocho Rios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	Ríos Montt, Efraín - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ríos Montt, Efraín (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unpopular because of this repression and his Protestant fundamentalist beliefs, in what is a predominantly Catholic country, Ríos Montt was overthrown and forced into exile by an August 1983 coup led by General Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores.
		A professional soldier from 1943, Ríos Montt rose to become a general and army chief of staff.
		Ríos Montt swiftly dissolved the ruling junta and installed himself as president.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /R%EDos%20Montt,%20Efra%EDn (226 words)

	americas.org - Ríos Montt Run Out of Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ríos Montt, who is seeking to run as candidate of the ruling rightwing Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) in November 9 elections, was slightly injured and was whisked away in a government helicopter; Radio Sonora reporter Antonio Castro was also hurt, as were a correspondent and a photographer from Associated Press.
		Ríos Montt seized power in March 1982 and was de facto president until he was overthrown by another military coup in August 1983.
		Ríos Montt’s campaign stop in Rabinal coincided with plans to bury the remains of 67 indigenous campesinos massacred by the military and paramilitaries in the communities of Tres Cruces, Chitucán and Plan de Sánchez from 1980 to 1982.
	www.americas.org /item_8410 (510 words)

	Tuesday, July 22, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Supreme Court judge, Jose Quezada, said the parties' appeal had been accepted and Rios Montt could not formally register as a candidate for the Nov. 9 elections until the legal dispute was resolved.
		Rights groups say Rios Montt ordered thousands of Mayan Indians massacred during his 1982-83 rule at the height of a 35-year civil war during which 200,000 people died.
		But the Constitutional Court -- the highest in the country -- last week accepted Rios Montt's argument that his rule ended before the constitutional clause was written, and said he could run.
	www.genocidewatch.org /GuatemalaJuly22SupremeCourt.htm (157 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; September 29, 1995
		Much of the attention earlier in the year was centered on the attempts by Rios Montt, of the Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (FRG), to register as a candidate despite a constitutional clause that prevented him from running for the presidency in the 1990 elections.
		In refusing to accept Sosa de Rios Montt's candidacy, the RC said that because she is a close relative of Rios Montt, Article 186 prohibits her from running as well.
		Rios Montt is, at present, not only out of the presidential race, but he has been temporarily suspended from his post as president of the legislature.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h95/notisur.19950929.html (2764 words)

	General Rios Montt Favored to Advance in Guatemala Presidential Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rios Montt supporters at this Guatemala City rally are hoping that he will be one of the top two vote getters in Sunday's elections.
		General Rios Montt's fans are not the only ones who think he stands a chance of advancing into a second-place spot.
		Opponents of General Rios Montt have denounced what they say are attempts to buy votes in the countryside.
	www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=56A8CE96-C9F2-4B7A-AA687392ABC8E824 (576 words)

	Despite dark pasts, Latin strongmen still hold appeal \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rios Montt is hoping his supporters are numerous enough to catapult him into the presidency.
		Ana Patricia Ruiz wasn't even born when Rios Montt ruled in 1982 and 1983, but she has heard that life back then was far different than it is today in her crime-ridden neighborhood of Guatemala City.
		Legal experts say that Rios Montt's candidacy is unconstitutional and threatens the rule of law that this fledgling democracy is striving to embrace.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1107/p07s02-woam.html (923 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; November 17, 1995
		Portillo is the hand-picked candidate of retired Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, the founder and undisputed leader of the FRG, and Portillo's impressive showing in the first round is generally attributed to Rios Montt's backing.
		Rios Montt was the de facto head of state for a military government that ruled the country from March 1982-August 1983, during which time the army carried out a massive offensive against the guerrillas' rural base of support in Indian highland communities.
		A minimum of 40,000 people were killed during Rios Montt's onslaught, and possibly up to 80,000, according to calculations based on official statistics that were compiled by the Supreme Court in 1985 on orphans left behind by the violence.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h95/notisur.19951117.html (4973 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Dictator can run for president - World - Efrain Rios Montt - Brief Article
		Rios Montt's 1982-83 regime was marked by "a wave of repression and brutality against the Guatemalan population that left in its wake thousands of dead and missing people," the church office said.
		Rios Montt's brother is Auxiliary Bishop Marlo Rios Montt of Guatemala City, who took over leadership of the Human Rights Office following the 1998 murder of Auxiliary Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera of Guatemala City.
		Rios Montt, 77, was overthrown in an August 1983 coup, but re-emerged in politics in the late 1990s and was elected to congress.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_35_39/ai_106475670 (314 words)

	Domestic prosecution - Prevent Genocide International
		Rios Montt is currently serving as the leader of Guatemala's Congress and as such he enjoys immunity from prosecution.
		Rios Montt: "Nothing to hide" Both men have been accused of conducting a policy of genocide against the Mayans, who were believed to be supporting left-wing rebels.
		Rios Montt was antagonistic to John Paul II on the pope's 1983 visit.
	www.preventgenocide.org /punish/domestic/index.htm (16568 words)

	Guatemala - Montt - Worldpress.org
		According to some analysts, one of the factors explaining Ríos Montt’s poor performance at the polls, in addition to accusations of corruption against the Portillo administration, are the violent events of July 24, when the general’s followers paralyzed the capital city for 30 hours to protest a Supreme Court ruling that temporarily impeded his candidacy.
		Old photos of Ríos Montt with Ronald Reagan were published by the FRG party with excerpts from a speech in which the former U.S. president recognized the general’s “personal integrity and commitment” as he faced the challenge of the country’s guerrillas.
		As a legislator—he was in the National Congress for a total of 12 years—he built a network of influence that kept his daughter, Zury Ríos, and his grandson, Jorge Ríos, in key positions in Congress, while his son Enrique Ríos Sosa was promoted to the rank of general during the current administration.
	www.worldpress.org /Americas/1683.cfm (1571 words)

	CNN.com - Running-mate of former dictator accepts defeat in Guatemala - Nov. 11, 2003
		Rios Montt's defeat could pave the way for his prosecution.
		After his 1982 coup and subsequent overthrow, Rios Montt made two unsuccessful tries at running for president, but was blocked because the constitution bans coup leaders from seeking the country's highest post.
		President Alfonso Portillo, a member of Rios Montt's Guatemalan Republican Front party, was banned by law from seeking a second consecutive term.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/11/11/guatemala.elections.ap (667 words)

	Ríos Montt - Guatemala - Worldpress.org
		José Efraín Ríos Montt, who took power in 1982 through a coup and during whose administration the greatest number of killings in Guatemala were committed, has obtained his registration as a candidate for the presidency.
		The resolution of the CC exposed the broad antipathy that Ríos Montt inspires among diverse sectors.
		Ríos Montt, it would be difficult to achieve the type of relationship that we would prefer.” Last week, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, John Hamilton, described himself as bewildered by the ruling of the CC and stated that the negative position of his government regarding Ríos Montt’s candidacy remains unchanged.
	www.worldpress.org /Americas/1495.cfm (1301 words)

	Oct. 2001: Guatemala: Ríos Montt genocide case presses forward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Ríos Montt case, however, is expected to raise a firestorm of controversy.
		Ríos Montt has already had it lifted once this year, Seils said, referring to a tax scandal that led to prosecution of many FRG members of congress.
		To win their case, prosecutors do not have to prove that any of the accused physically participated in acts of genocide, only that the acts were part of a larger state policy during the time that the defendants were the legal and effectual heads of the state.
	www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_21/No_4/article_4.htm (2658 words)

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