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Efraín Ríos Montt

1926 - 2018

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José Efraín Ríos Montt (Spanish: [efɾaˈin ˈrios ˈmont]; 16 June 1926 – 1 April 2018) was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as de facto President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983. 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 Marxist guerrillas 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. Ríos Montt was a career army officer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Efraín Ríos Montt is the 6,381st most popular politician (down from 5,534th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Guatemala (down from 4th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 6,381 out of 19,576. Before him are Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Kantarō Suzuki, Chen Cheng, Al-Mansur Ali, Şahin Giray, and İsa Çelebi. After him are Otto Rasch, Husni al-Za'im, Clara Campoamor, Behgjet Pacolli, Butvydas, and Giulio Douhet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 124. Before him are Jean-Marie Lustiger, Jimmy Savile, Youssef Chahine, Jürgen Moltmann, Nina Kulagina, and Lu'ay al-Atassi. After him are Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Abdul Rahim Hatif, Estanislau Basora, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Juan José Linz, and Maria Teresa de Filippis. Among people deceased in 2018, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 92. Before him are Dorothy Malone, Alan Baker, Gene Sharp, Alan Bean, E. C. George Sudarshan, and Henri Michel. After him are Irena Szewińska, Hayden White, David Goodall, Odvar Nordli, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Samir Amin.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 5 out of 44. Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), Jacobo Árbenz (1913), Álvaro Colom (1951), and Rigoberta Menchú (1959). After him are Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), and Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 3. Before him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913), and Álvaro Colom (1951). After him are Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Óscar Berger (1946), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), and Álvaro Arzú (1946).

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