Guatemala’s Rios Montt and an End to Impunity

Mark V. Vlasic, Madison Law & Strategy Group 5/22/13 His name might not be as infamous as “Milosevic” or “Saddam,” but the fight against impunity claimed another “first” earlier this month. Efraín Ríos Montt, a former Guatemalan general, became the first former Latin American president convicted of genocide and war crimes, extending the long arm…