… months after Rios Montt seized power through military coup d’etat. No doubt, the ever-increasing number of Maya … as his “baby.” Less than one month after the Rios Montt coup, Plan Victoria was signed by the junta on April 10, 1982 … community. On May 24, 1982 (exactly two months after the coup), the army called all the 800 patrollers to gather in …