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Efraín Ríos Montt

1926 - 2018

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José Efraín Ríos Montt (Spanish: [efɾaˈin ˈrios ˈmont]; 16 June 1926 – 1 April 2018) was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as de facto President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983. His brief tenure as chief executive was one of the bloodiest periods in the long-running Guatemalan Civil War. Ríos Montt's counter-insurgency strategies significantly weakened the Marxist guerrillas organized under the umbrella of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) while also leading to accusations of war crimes and genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan Army under his leadership.Ríos Montt was a career army officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Efraín Ríos Montt has received more than 594,955 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Efraín Ríos Montt is the 5,536th most popular politician (up from 5,857th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Guatemala and the 2nd most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Efraín Ríos Montt has had the most page views in the with 95,655 views, followed by English (71,591), and French (7,532). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tajik (390.43%), Romanian (199.28%), and Esperanto (113.65%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 5,536 out of 19,576. Before him are Phạm Văn Đồng, John Garang, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and García Ramírez of Navarre. After him are Antonio Tajani, Lucius Antonius, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Nubar Pasha, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, and Yoshirō Mori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 99. Before him are Patricia Neal, David H. Hubel, Siegfried Lenz, Alan Greenspan, László Papp, and Youssef Chahine. After him are Verner Panton, Shigeo Sugimoto, Paul Baran, Maria Teresa de Filippis, John Schlesinger, and Rehavam Ze'evi. Among people deceased in 2018, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 74. Before him are Anthony Bourdain, Steve Ditko, Christine Nöstlinger, Quini, Thorvald Stoltenberg, and Girma Wolde-Giorgis. After him are Henri Michel, Samir Amin, Whitey Bulger, James Mirrlees, Odvar Nordli, and Richard Pipes.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 4 out of 44. Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), Jacobo Árbenz (1913), and Rigoberta Menchú (1959). After him are Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), and Oscar Isaac (1979).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt ranks 2. Before him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913). After him are Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), and Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857).

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