Guatemalan ex-dictator's daughter announces presidential bid
Guatemalan ex-dictator's daughter announces presidential bid
Apr 17, 7:45 PM EDT
By SONIA PEREZ D.
Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- The daughter of Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator facing charges of genocide for massacres committed during his 1982-83 regime, is running for president of Guatemala. Zury Rios Sosa, a three-time member of congress, announced Thursday that she would accept the nomination of the Christian conservative Vision with Values party to compete in general elections later this year.
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Rios Sosa married Jerry Weller, who at the time was a Republican U.S. congressman from Illinois, in 2004.
She was 14 years old when her father, an army general, seized power in a coup. The regime he led suspended the constitution and launched a brutal campaign against political dissidents.
In 2013, he was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity for the killings of 1,771 Mayan Indians by soldiers under his command. A court later overturned the ruling, and a retrial that was supposed to begin in January has been delayed.
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Zury Rios Sosa and former Republican Rep. Jerry Weller [/center]