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Incumbents

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Fernando Romeo Lucas García Fernando Romeo Lucas García (4 July 1924 – 27 May 2006) was a military officer and politician who served as the 37th president of Guatemala from July 1, 1978, to March 23, 1982. He was elected as the nominee for the Institutional Democratic ...

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Óscar Mendoza Azurdia Colonel Óscar Alberto Mendoza Azurdia (4 June 1917 – 9 January 1995) was the chairman of the military junta in Guatemala from 24 October 1957 to 26 October 1957. He was later elected as Vice President on 12 September 1980 after the resignatio ...

Events

April

* April 21 - Soldiers of the Army of Guatemala entered the village of Acul, near

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in the Guatemalan highlands, and executed most of the adult men for suspected collaboration with leftist guerillas. "Within two weeks," an investigator for the government noted in 1997, "the village was empty, and the army burned every house and field of corn in Acul". The village was rebuilt two years later.Victoria Sanford, ''Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p89
Acul: Guatemala in Pictures
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Years of the 20th century in Guatemala

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