Efraín Ríos Montt
Former President of GuatemalaWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Jamie LoftusHOST
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Vanessa GuerreroGUEST
The movie is based off of something that actually happened with Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.
Jamie LoftusHOST
Mm-hmm.
Vanessa GuerreroGUEST
My My mother, grandmother went through it, and hearing the stories of what it was like at the time.
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Vanessa GuerreroGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Vanessa GuerreroGUEST
Absolutely.
Caitlin DuranteHOST
Um, 'cause I am by no means an, an expert on this, but, um, basically the character in the movie, Enrique Monteverde, as you said, is based on Efraín Ríos Montt, um, who was the president/dictator of Guatemala from 1982 to '83.
Caitlin DuranteHOST
He was a career army officer who became the leader of the country when a group of military officers led a coup in 1982 against the then president, Romeo Lucas García, and then they installed Ríos Montt as a military dictator.