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Briefs 2/2/2012: Guatemala, Mexico

  GUATEMALA: Guatemala puts dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Trial Almost three decades after now-retired general, Efrain Rios Montt, took power of Guatemala through a coup d’etat, he is facing trial for crimes against humanity. Montt is accused of ordering the mass killings of at least 1,771 unarmed civilians—in almost 100 separate massacres—and the extreme […]