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February 14, 2021 at 8:38 am

Carlos Menem, flamboyant Argentine president who tried to tame inflation, dies at 90

Carlos Menem, who during 10 years as Argentina's flamboyant, scandal-ridden president engineered a stunning economic turnaround only to be blamed for an even more dramatic...

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FILE – In this Jan. 23, 2013 file photo, Guatemala’s former dictator Efrain Rios Montt (1982-1983) attends a pre-trial hearing at court in Guatemala City. According to his lawyer, Rios Montt died Sunday, April 1, 2018, in Guatemala City of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File) XMC103 XMC103

April 1, 2018 at 11:50 am

Efrain Rios Montt, 91, dies; Guatemalan ex-dictator was charged with genocide

Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a 1982 coup and presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war, in which soldiers...

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