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==== Guatemala ==== As Assistant Secretary of State, Abrams advocated for aid to Guatemala under then dictator [[Efraín Ríos Montt]], erroneously stating in 1983 that his reign had "brought considerable progress" on human rights.<ref name="Malkin"/> Ríos Montt came to power via a coup in 1982, overcoming the forces of General [[Fernando Romeo Lucas García]]. Thirty years later, Ríos Montt was found guilty of overseeing a campaign of [[Guatemalan genocide#Genocide under Ríos Montt|mass murder and torture of indigenous people]], [[genocide]], in Guatemala. Ríos Montt, who claimed he had no operational control of the forces involved, was convicted of genocide against the [[Maya peoples|Maya]]-[[Ixil people|Ixil]] population.<ref name="Malkin">{{cite news |first=Elisabeth |last=Malkin |title=Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/americas/trial-on-guatemalan-civil-war-carnage-leaves-out-us-role.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 May 2013}}</ref>
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