Guatemala court bars ex-dictator's daughter, Zury Rios, from presidential race

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MAY 13, 2019 / 10:03 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Guatemala court bars ex-dictator's daughter from presidential race

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala’s top judicial body said on Monday that it had barred the daughter of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt from participating in the country’s presidential elections in June.

Guatemala’s Constitutional Court rejected a challenge by Montt’s daughter, right-wing politician Zury Rios, to a lower court’s decision to block her candidacy for the presidency, the court said in a statement.

The court based its decision on an article of the Guatemalan constitution that bars close relatives of the leaders of coups d’etat from serving as president or vice president.

“The measure limiting a close relative from assuming the position of president or vice president of the republic is logical because it prioritizes the common good over individual interest,” the court said.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. That will just crush the people of Guatemala, daughter of a man convicted of genocide getting barred

from running for the Presidency.

He would have died in prison had not a Guatemalan judge appeared in time to overturn the genocide conviction, claiming something was wrong with the trial.....

They had planned to retry him but he insisted upon appearing to die first. Shameful.

Genocide. What a hateful piece of trash. Good friend of Ronald Reagan.

Zury apparently treasured US Republican politicians to the extent she married a Republican Congressman. From her Wikipedia:

. . .On 20 November 2004, at a ceremony held in General Ríos Montt's compound near Antigua Guatemala, and with the general presiding at the ceremony, she married U.S. Congressman Jerry Weller (R-Illinois). Following the wedding, she stated that although she planned to live in the United States with her husband, she would continue serving in the Guatemalan legislature; a lawyer for Weller told the U.S. House Ethics Committee that she did not plan on becoming a U.S. citizen.

In March 2006 the Wellers announced that she was pregnant,[5] and a daughter, Marizú Catherine, was born on 17 August 2006 in a Guatemala City hospital.[6] The child holds dual U.S. and Guatemalan nationality.. . .

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guatemala-politics/guatemala-court-bars-ex-dictators-daughter-from-presidential-race-idUSKCN1SK06U


She probably should go ahead and burn in hell along with her father, the other monster.