Tag: dictatorship

  • 24. ‘Morality’ Broadcasts by a Dictator

    24. ‘Morality’ Broadcasts by a Dictator

    By David Crowther Jose Efrain Ríos Montt (1926-2018) was a complicated figure, to say the least. President of Guatemala for a brief period in the 1980s, and an influential figure in Guatemalan politics thereafter, Ríos Montt was an uncompromising Protestant moralist in a country that increasingly followed his path of conversion. As leader of the…