CUTAWAYS OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN WITH GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT GENERAL JOSE EFRAIN RIOS MONTT. 00:05 MS OF REAGAN AND RIOS MONTT ENTERING A PRESS BRIEFING ROOM. CUTAWAYS OF THE PRESS. 01:00 MS OF RIOS MONTT LOOKING ON WHILE REAGAN ADDRESSES THE PRESS. MS OF RIOS MONTT ADDRESSING THE PRESS IN SPANISH. CUTAWAYS. CI: PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD. PERSONALITIES: RIOS MONTT, JOSE EFRAIN. US RELATIONS: GUATEMALA.

El exdictador guatemalteco Rios Montt, procesado por genocidio, ingreso este martes a un hospital psiquiatrico privado donde sera sometido a una evaluacion que determinara si podra enfrentar un nuevo juicio por la matanza de indigenas durante su regimen (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CUTAWAYS OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN WITH GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT GENERAL JOSE EFRAIN RIOS MONTT. 00:05 MS OF REAGAN AND RIOS MONTT ENTERING A PRESS BRIEFING ROOM. CUTAWAYS OF THE PRESS. 01:00 MS OF RIOS MONTT LOOKING ON WHILE REAGAN ADDRESSES THE PRESS. MS OF RIOS MONTT ADDRESSING THE PRESS IN SPANISH. CUTAWAYS. CI: PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD. PERSONALITIES: RIOS MONTT, JOSE EFRAIN. US RELATIONS: GUATEMALA.

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is taken Tuesday to a private psychiatric facility for tests to determine whether he is fit for trial (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Un tribunal guatemalteco ordeno este jueves ingresar a un hospital publico de salud mental al exdictador Efrain Rios Montt para someterlo a nuevos estudios psiquiatricos que determinen si cuenta con la capacidad intelectual para enfrentar el juicio por genocidio (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

TAPE: EF03/0644 IN_TIME: 00:47:26 DURATION: 1:34 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various - File SHOTLIST: Rabinal - 14 June 2003 1. Wide shot of protest 2. Mid shot of protesters throwing stones at Rios Montt 3. Mid shot of protesters yelling and throwing stones 4. Mid shot of Rios Montt 5. Long shot of protesters chasing Rios Montt, security helping Rios Montt to get inside a car Guatemala City - FILE 23 March 1982 6. Long shot of general appearing before applauding crowd Guatemala City- FILE March 1982 7. Wide shot of Army on the streets of Guatemala City 8. Mid shot of Rios Montt speech after taking power Guatemala City - FILE 23 March 1982 9. Helicopter landing in front of National Palace Guatemala City - FILE 1 January 1995 10. General Efrain Rios Montt in military garb speaking Guatemala City - FILE 26 December 1999 11. Mid shot of General Rios Montt 12. Long shot of Rios Montt voting in a school STORYLINE: Guatemala's highest court ruled on Monday in favour of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, allowing him to compete in November's presidential elections despite a law banning anyone who had ever seized power in a coup from running. The decision shocked and angered some Guatemalans, because Rios Montt presided over some of the worst human rights abuses of Guatemala's 36-year civil war. He headed a 1982-83 military regime. While legal reasoning behind the four-three decision by the Constitutional Court was not immediately made public, Rios Montt had argued that the ban on coup leaders, formalized in the 1985 Constitution, could not be applied retroactively to acts that occurred before that date. On Saturday, Guatemala's second-highest court had ruled against Rios Montt. In that ruling, the Supreme Court of Justice said Rios Montt's appeal of a lower court decision rejecting his candidacy was "obviously inappropriate." Rios Montt took power in a military coup in March 1982, but was himself deposed in a military uprising 18 months later. The Republican Front nominated the 77-year-old retired brigadier general in May, but his candidacy was rejected by the electoral registry and by two lower courts. The constitutional court rejected Rios Montt's attempts to run for president in 1990 and in 1995. In 1999, he was elected head of the single-house legislature and helped his friend, Alfonso Portillo, win the presidency. Many pundits had speculated that the constitutional court might decide in Rios Montt's favour because it was now stacked with the ex-general's and Portillo's allies. Human rights groups said Rios Montt was among the bloodiest dictators in Latin American history.

A court has sent former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt for nine days of psychiatric tests postponing the start of a new genocide trial (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

BARS. WS ENTRANCE TO A GUATEMALAN AIR FORCE BASE. ZOOM IN TO SOLDIER ON THE ROOF. PC COUP LEADERS; GENERAL EFRAIN RIOS MONTT, FLANKED BY GENERAL HORACIO MALDONADO SCHAAD, AND COLONEL JORGE LUIS GORDILLO. VS MONTT SPEAKS IN SPANISH. VS MONTT ANSWERS QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESS. VS PC ENDS AND THE JUNTA LEAVES. VS MONTT, WALKING, TALKS WITH THE PRESS. CI: PERSONALITIES: GORDILLO, JORGE LUIS. PERSONALITIES: MONTT, EFRAIN RIOS. PERSONALITIES: SCHAAD, HORACIO MALDONADO. MILITARY: MILITARY BASES, FOREIGN, AIR FORCE, GUATEMALA. GOVERNMENT: REVOLUTION, GUATEMALA.

BARS. WS ENTRANCE TO A GUATEMALAN AIR FORCE BASE. ZOOM IN TO SOLDIER ON THE ROOF. PC COUP LEADERS; GENERAL EFRAIN RIOS MONTT, FLANKED BY GENERAL HORACIO MALDONADO SCHAAD, AND COLONEL JORGE LUIS GORDILLO. VS MONTT SPEAKS IN SPANISH. VS MONTT ANSWERS QUESTIONS FOR THE PRESS. VS PC ENDS AND THE JUNTA LEAVES. VS MONTT, WALKING, TALKS WITH THE PRESS. CI: PERSONALITIES: GORDILLO, JORGE LUIS. PERSONALITIES: MONTT, EFRAIN RIOS. PERSONALITIES: SCHAAD, HORACIO MALDONADO. MILITARY: MILITARY BASES, FOREIGN, AIR FORCE, GUATEMALA. GOVERNMENT: REVOLUTION, GUATEMALA.

A Guatemalan court ordered that ex dictator Efrain Rios Montt should be admitted to a public psychiatric hospital for further examinations on the day that a new genocide trial against him was set to begin (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Tras la suspension este lunes del juicio contra el exdictador Rios Montt acusado de genocidio sus querellantes esperan se fije fecha para un nuevo proceso (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY OF PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT GENERAL JOSE EFRAIN RIOS MONTT. 00:05 LS OF REAGAN AND HONDURAN PRESIDENT ROBERTO SUAZO CORDOVA EXITING A BUILDING. 01:18 PHOTO OPPORTUNITY OF RIOS MONTT, REAGAN AND SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE SHULTZ SEATED AT A CONFERENCE TABLE. CI: PERSONALITIES: REAGAN, RONALD. PERSONALITIES: RIOS MONTT, JOSE EFRAIN. PERSONALITIES: SHULTZ, GEORGE. PERSONALITIES: SUAZO CORDOVA, ROBERTO. US RELATIONS: GUATEMALA.