Lawyer: Ex-Guatemala dictator Efrain Rios Montt dies at 91
Monday, 2 April 2018 () GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a 1982 coup and presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war in which soldiers waged a scorched-earth campaign to root out Marxist guerrillas, died Sunday, his lawyers said. Lawyer Jaime Hernandez said the family told him the 91-year-old died of a heart attack. Another of his attorneys, Luis Rosales, said he "died in peace, surrounded by his family." Echoing Rios Montt's longstanding, angry denials, Rosales said, "Here (in Guatemala) there was no genocide." Hector Reyes, a lawyer who represented the families of some of the victims of government massacres, disputed that. Rios Montt "didn't die...
Monday, 2 April 2018 ()
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a 1982 coup and presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war in which soldiers waged a scorched-earth campaign to root out Marxist guerrillas, died Sunday, his lawyers said. Lawyer Jaime Hernandez said the family told him the 91-year-old died of a heart attack. Another of his attorneys, Luis Rosales, said he "died in peace, surrounded by his family." Echoing Rios Montt's longstanding, angry denials, Rosales said, "Here (in Guatemala) there was no genocide." Hector Reyes, a lawyer who represented the families of some of the victims of government massacres, disputed that. Rios Montt "didn't die...