Guatemalan Dictator Efraín Ríos’ Death Prompts Bitter Reflections on the War Crimes That Went Unpunished

Yara Simón — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:52:45 +0000

Guatemalan dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt died Sunday at age 91. As obituaries of his life recount his crimes against humanity, many of those who families were affected by his cruelty are using social media to vocalize their exasperation that justice was never served. Despite committing genocide against Guatemala’s indigenous communities, Ríos Montt never served any time

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TRAILER: ‘El Buen Cristiano’ Doc Highlights the Religious Hypocrisy of Guatemala’s Bloody Dictator

Andrew S. Vargas — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 20:05:56 +0000

Plenty of atrocities have been committed in the name of some religion or other, but in Guatemala this tragic hypocrisy is especially resonant in the wake of the country’s nearly 40-year civil war. That’s because Guatemala’s one-time dictator and convicted war criminal Efraín Rios Montt had converted to an evangelical strain of Protestantism – and

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