Morning Star Guatemala: Ex-Dictator’s Daughter Clear For Presidential Run Morning Star, London, 24 July 2015 Guatemala’s Supreme Court has ruled that the daughter of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt can run for president. The decision on Wednesday clears the way for Zury Rios Sosa to be selected as presidential candidate for her father’s Christian conservative Vision with Values (Viva) party. Guatemala’s constitution bans relatives of dictators or coup leaders from contesting presidential elections. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal had applied the rule to block Ms Rios Sosa’a candidacy on three previous occasions. But on July 16 she sought a Supreme Court injunction to overturn the tribunal’s latest decision. Former general Mr Rios Montt took part in the CIA-organised coup d’état against president Jacob Arbenz in 1954, and briefly came to power in a 1982 putsch. In 2013, Mr Rios Montt was convicted of war crimes for his role in Guatemala’s “scorched earth” campaign, which killed hundreds of thousands of indigenous peasants. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c3ea-Guatemala-Ex-dictators-daughter-cl ear-for-presidential-run#.VbNgz7Oqqkp -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
