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Guatemalan Republican Front
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| Abbreviation | FRG |
| Website | http://www.frg.org.gt/ |
| Country | Guatemala |
| Established | 1990-01-10 |
| Disbanded | 2013-01-26 |
| Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
| Last Edited | Juan Croniqueur - April 22, 2024 01:55pm |
| Description | Right-of-center, Pentecostal party founded by former Guatemalan strongman and leader of the evangelical church "El Verbo," Efraín Ríos Montt. Ríos Montt seized power by coup with other military officers on March 23, 1982, then took a 180 degree turn by expelling other junta leaders, eliminating death squads (and death squad leaders), granting amnesties to 15,000 'guerillas' and inviting the left to far-left to participate in direct elections and join his government. These actions forced a counter-coup on August 8, 1983 and his overthrow. Ríos Montt then turned to 'party work', launching the FRG in 1990. Party was credited with being transparent and honestly managed with a bent for 'Protestant ethics' but had been inclined to authoritarian thought. Party was eventually dissolved before Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years of jail on January 28, 2013 and was succeeded by the Institutional Republican Party (PRI; dissolved on November 28, 2015), which then became the present-day Valor party, which was legalized in 2017. Ríos Montt was the PRG's secretary general from January 10, 1990 to October 30, 2010 [Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (FRG)]. |
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