The American Government Involvement in Guatemalan Genocide — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Reagan: "I know that President Rios Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment."

On the evening of December 4, 1982, President Ronald Reagan informed reporters assembled at an Air Force base in Honduras that he had just engaged in a “useful exchange of ideas” with Efraín Rios Montt. The Guatemalan military general was the most recent in a succession of U.S.-backed dictators who had been governing the country since the CIA first toppled its democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, in 1954.
This American Life on Guatemalan Genocide — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting