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Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores

1930 - 2016

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Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (December 9, 1930 – February 1, 2016) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the Head of Government from August 1983 to January 1986. A member of the military, he was head of state during the apex of repression and death squad activity in the Central American nation. When he was minister of defense, he rallied a coup against President Ríos Montt, which he justified by declaring that religious fanatics were abusing the government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores has received more than 52,301 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores is the 12,187th most popular politician (down from 12,139th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Guatemala (down from 16th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores ranks 12,187 out of 19,576. Before him are Ur-Nungal, Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Nur Devlet, Émile Eddé, Chand Bibi, and Michael Kors. After him are Sara Nazarbayeva, Lorenzo Priuli, Avi Dichter, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, Geoffrey I of Provence, and Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores ranks 296. Before him are Kurt Nielsen, Sigge Parling, Rolf Hoppe, Merab Mamardashvili, Chuck Daly, and Mohammad Ali Fardin. After him are Clive Revill, Hédi Baccouche, Ilya Glazunov, Vlatko Pavletić, Sonja Edström, and Edna O'Brien. Among people deceased in 2016, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores ranks 239. Before him are Nate Thurmond, Zoltán Kocsis, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Alphons Egli, Miruts Yifter, and Nicole Courcel. After him are Vladica Kovačević, Harald Grønningen, Laura Mancinelli, Luis María Echeberría, Laurent Pokou, and Paul Bley.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores ranks 17 out of 44. Before him are Álvaro Colom (1951), Oscar Isaac (1979), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), and Óscar Berger (1946). After him are Álvaro Arzú (1946), Fernando Romeo Lucas García (1924), Vinicio Cerezo (1942), Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (1918), Julio César Méndez Montenegro (1915), and Justo Rufino Barrios (1835).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores ranks 14. Before him are Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), and Óscar Berger (1946). After him are Álvaro Arzú (1946), Fernando Romeo Lucas García (1924), Vinicio Cerezo (1942), Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (1918), Julio César Méndez Montenegro (1915), and Justo Rufino Barrios (1835).

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