Identity
Current Charges
- Military coup and authoritarian rule.
- Massacres during the Guatemalan Civil War.
- Human-rights abuses against Indigenous communities.
- Political repression and militarized governance.
Full Bio
Efraín Ríos Montt was a Guatemalan army general who ruled Guatemala from 1982 to 1983 after a coup. His rule occurred during the Guatemalan Civil War and was associated with massacres, repression, and atrocities against Indigenous communities.