In late 2011, Guatemala’s powerful attorney general,
Claudia Paz y Paz, brought criminal charges of genocide against the country’s
former leader, General Efrain Rios Montt. In May of this year, at the end of a
long and highly unusual trial, the 86-year-old Rios Montt—who had helped save
Guatemala from a leftist insurgency—was convicted of genocide and sentenced to
80 years in jail. The international Left celebrated the verdict, which promised
to give the Left a dramatic increase in power. U.S. media highlighted the
verdict but ignored a fact well known to Guatemalans: the U.S. had lobbied for
Rios Montt to be convicted……To Read More….
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