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38th President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ríos and the second or maternal family name is Montt.

José Efraín Ríos Montt (Spanish:[efɾaˈinˈriosˈmont]; 16 June 1926 – 1 April 2018) was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as de factoPresident of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983.

Brigadier General Jose ~£rain Rios Montt.

Brigadier General Jose ~£rain Rios Montt.

Jose Efrain Rios Montt (now deceased), who ruled Guatemala for nearly seventeen months during and , and his then chief of military intelligence, faced.

Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemalan army general and politician who ruled Guatemala as the leader of a military junta and as dictator (–83).

The military, although allied with the estate owners and to the status quo, had primarily a subservient role to the government until A military.

General Ríos Montt began his political career as a reformer but was later found guilty of trying to exterminate a Mayan Indian community.

His brief tenure as chief executive was one of the bloodiest periods in the long-running Guatemalan Civil War. Ríos Montt's counter-insurgency strategies significantly weakened the Marxistguerrillas organized under the umbrella of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) while also leading to accusations of war crimes and genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan Army under his leadership.^[1][2]

Ríos Montt was a career army officer.

He was director of the Guatemalan military academy and rose to the rank of brigadier general. He was briefly chief of staf