Editing Efraín Ríos Montt (section)

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{{Villain_Infobox
|Image = Efraín Ríos Montt.jpg
|fullname = José Efraín Ríos Montt 
|alias = The General
|occupation = President of Guatemala (1982 - 1983)<br>President of the Congress of Guatemala (1995 - 1996, 2000 - 2004)
|origin = Huehuetenango, Guatemala
|type of villain = Dictator
|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Human rights violations<br>[[State terrorism]]<br>[[Mass murder]]<br>Mass repression<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Kidnapping]]
|goals = Remain in Power (failed)
|hobby = Killing Guatemalans}}
{{Quote|If you are with us, we will feed you. If not, we will kill you.|Efraín Ríos Montt}}
'''José Efraín Ríos Montt''' (June 16, 1926 – April 1, 2018) was a Guatemalan general and politician who served as President of Guatemala. Born in Huehuetenango, he was a dictator who took power as a result of a ''coup d'état'' on March 23, 1982. He was overthrown by his defense minister, [[Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores]], in another ''coup d'état'' on August 8, 1983.<ref name = IJM></ref> He was considered to be the most brutal dictator of Guatemala's [[civil war]]; despite only being in power for a little over a year, his tenure in office saw him preside over the most intense stage of the [[Guatemalan Genocide]].<ref name = nacla>[https://nacla.org/news/2018/04/25/genocide-and-pursuit-justice A Genocide and the Pursuit of Justice], North American Congress on Latin America</ref>

In the 2003 presidential elections, Ríos Montt unsuccessfully ran as the candidate of the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). In 2007 he returned to public office as a member of Congress, thereby gaining prosecutorial immunity. He was protected from a pair of long-running lawsuits alleging [[war crimes]] against him and a number of his former ministers and counselors during their term in the presidential palace in 1982–83. His immunity ended on January 14, 2012, with the end of his term in legislative office. On January 26, 2012, he appeared in court in Guatemala and was formally indicted for [[genocide]] and [[crimes against humanity]].

Ríos Montt died in Guatemala City on April 1, 2018, of a heart attack at the age of 91.