But as crowds flocked outdoors to see Rios Montt, others hid indoors.
Mayan widows wearing green and yellow woven headdresses and shawls sat in a dingy office discussing their own compensation bids -- for their husbands' murders during Rios Montt's rule.
Catalina Brito hasn't seen her husband since 40 soldiers kidnapped him on the outskirts of Nebaj in December 1982.
"He's an assassin," she said of Rios Montt. "How can people support an assassin?"
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