US-trained military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt takes power via military coup: "On March 23, the coup culminated with the installation of a three-man military junta, presided by General Efraín Ríos Montt and composed also of General Horacio Maldonado Schaad and Colonel Luis Gordillo Martínez."
"Montt attended a training course at SOA in 1950."