When was the Brigadier General born who was a Christian evangelist who seized power in a coup toppling then dictator General Romeo Lucas García in 1982?
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Harris Whitbeck, Sr. Harris Whitbeck Pinol is an upper-class Guatemalan businessman. Whitbeck was a presidential candidate for Guatemala's Partido Patriota or Patriotic Party (PP) during national elections held in 2003. Whitbeck had previously been in the Frente Republicano Guatemalteco or Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the political party founded in 1989 by the former Guatemalan strongman and president, former Brigadier General Efraín Ríos Montt, a Christian evangelist who seized power in a coup toppling then dictator General Romeo Lucas García in 1982. Montt's regime was favored by Ronald Reagan's administration as a staunch U.S. ally and anti-communist bulwark during the turbulent 1980's when civil wars plagued Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Prior to breaking away from the FRG, Harris Whitbeck had been one of Rios Montt's closest advisers.
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Efraín Ríos Montt José Efraín Ríos Montt (] ; born June 16, 1926) is a Guatemalan career military officer and politician; he served as President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983. He was an army general during his time in office, following a coup d'état in 1982. His military government practiced large-scale violations of human rights and spread counter-insurgency terror among the peasantry. It constituted a brief, but terrible episode in the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted until 1996.
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Delfin Castro Delfin C. Castro is a retired Major General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He was the commander of the AFP Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), from 1981 to 1986. Notable incidents during his tenure include the Pata Island massacre, the assassination of Zamboanga City Mayor Cesar Climaco, the rescue of kidnapped Bishop Federico O. Escaler from Muslim rebels and the strafing of the Japanese vessel "Hegg" by Philippine Air Force fighters off Mindanao.
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Leopoldo Galtieri Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (] ; 15 July 1926 12 January 2003) was an Argentine general and President of Argentina from 22 December 1981 to 18 June 1982, during the last military dictatorship (known officially as the National Reorganization Process). The death squad, 601 Intelligence Battalion, directly reported to him. He was removed from power soon after the British re-took the Falklands Islands, whose invasion and occupation he had ordered.
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Orlando Letelier Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (April 13, 1932 – September 21, 1976) was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A refugee from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier accepted several academic positions in Washington, D.C. following his exodus from Chile. In 1976, agents of DINA, the Pinochet regime's secret police, assassinated Letelier in Washington via the use of a car bomb. These agents had been working in collaboration with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, a U.S.-sponsored, anti-Fidel Castro, militant group.
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Government of Celso Torrelio Villa, 1981–82 The High Command of the Military of Bolivia entrusted General Celso Torrelio Villa with the Presidency on 4 September 1981, and on 7 September 1981 he formed his cabinet.
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Henry Rangel Silva Henry de Jesús Rangel Silva (born in 1961) is the current governor of Trujillo, Venezuela. A military general and former Minister of Defense, Rangel Silva was previously the head of Operational Strategic Command of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, head of the DISIP (from 2005) and Director of CANTV (from 2009). Rangel Silva took part in the coup attempt of February 1992 together with Hugo Chávez.
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Ángel Abrea Ángel Abrea (born 13 September 1933) was the first resident of Latin America to become a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Halidu Giwa Lance Corporal Carlos Halidu Giwa was a Ghanaian military officer. He led a military coup d'etat with Sergeant Abdul Malik on June 19, 1983.
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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (12 March 1900 – 17 January 1975) was the 19th President of Colombia from June 1953 to May 1957. An Army General, he mounted a successful coup d'état against the incumbent President, Laureano Gómez Castro (1889—1965), imposing martial law and establishing a dictatorship-style government in Colombia.
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Daniel Ortega José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (] ; born November 11, 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician who has been President of Nicaragua since 2007; previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1985) and then as President (1985–1990). A leader in the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front ("Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional", "FSLN"), his policies in government have seen the implementation of leftist reforms across Nicaragua.
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Juan Rafael Bustillo Juan Rafael Bustillo (born January 31, 1935) is a former general and chief of the Air Force of El Salvador who is accused of planning the murder of six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her daughter at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA) in El Salvador on November 16, 1989.
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Santiago Sinclair Santiago Sinclair Oyaneder (born 29 December 1927) was a Chilean Army general and member of the Pinochet dictatorship from 1987 to 1989 that ruled Chile from 1973–1990.
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Lucio Cabañas Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (] , 12 December 1938 – 2 December 1974) was a Mexican schoolteacher who became a revolutionary, albeit not a Marxist one. Cabañas regarded Emiliano Zapata as his role model and he never abandoned his Christian faith, as can be seen in Gerardo Tort's film documentary on him.
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Omar Torrijos Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 – July 31, 1981), more commonly known as Omar Torrijos, was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the "de facto" dictator of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, but instead held titles including "Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution" and "Supreme Chief of Government." Torrijos took power in a "coup d'état" and instituted a number of social reforms and his regime was considered progressive.
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Eulogio Cantillo Eulogio Cantillo (September 13, 1911, Cuba - September 9, 1978, Miami, Florida, U.S.) was a general in the pre-revolutionary Cuban army. General Cantillo served as Chief of the Joint Staff during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Cantillo did not participate in the military coup that brought Batista to power. During the Cuban Revolution, he led Cuban soldiers in the fight against Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement. After the Cuban Revolution, He was tried by the revolutionary tribunals and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released before serving his entire sentence sometime in the sixties, and went into exile in Miami where he died in 1978.
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Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha Manuel de Jesús María Ulpiano Troncoso de la Concha (April 3, 1878 – May 30, 1955) was an intellectual and President of the Dominican Republic from 1940 until 1942, as a puppet of dictator Rafael Trujillo. Prior to ascending to the Presidency, he was Vice-President from 1938 to 1940. His term began upon the death of President Jacinto Peynado. He also served in 1911 during the reign of the Council of Secretaries
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César Benavides Cesar Raúl Benavides (12 March 1912 – 25 March 2011) was a Chilean Army general and member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973–1990. He served on the junta as a member from 1981–1983.
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David Padilla David Padilla Arancibia (13 August 1927 – 25 September 2016) was a military general and "de facto" president of Bolivia. He ruled his country from November 1978 to August 1979.
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Lázaro Macapagal Lázaro Macapagal is a General in the Philippine Revolution, known for his commitment to the Aguinaldo Administration and his role in the execution of Andrés Bonifacio and his brother Procopio Bonifacio.
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Jorge Rafael Videla Jorge Rafael Videla (] ; 2 August 1925 – 17 May 2013) was a senior commander in the Argentine Army and dictator of Argentina from 1976 to 1981.
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Alfredo M. Santos General Alfredo Manapat Santos (July 13, 1905 – February 7, 1990) was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 1962 to 1965, making him the first four-star general of the Philippines' armed forces.