TICO TIMES
Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt died Sunday at 91 years of age. His trial for genocide had been suspended; Ríos Montt was accused of the murder of thousands of indigenous Guatemalans during his 1982-1983 rule.
His short but fearsome regime, full of terrible massacres of indigenous people, become a symbol of the most violent era of Guatemala’s 36 years of civil war (1960-1996). People close to the former dictator confirmed his death from a heart
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