Question: When was the Brigadier General born who was a Christian evangelist who seized power in a coup toppling then dictator General Romeo Lucas García in 1982?
Context: General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982.  Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July.  However, the election was widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d'état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez. Oliverio Castañeda de León (October 12, 1955 – October 20, 1978) was a Guatemalan left-wing oriented student leader, who fought for civil rights and was assassinated at the age of 23 in Guatemala City during the regime of General Romeo Lucas García. General elections were held in Guatemala on 5 March 1978.  No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the presidential election, resulting in Fernando Romeo Lucas García being elected president by Congress on 13 March.  The Congressional elections were won by the National Liberation Movement. José Efraín Ríos Montt (] ; born June 16, 1926) is a Guatemalan career military officer and politician; he served as President of Guatemala from 1982 to 1983.  He was an army general during his time in office, following a coup d'état in 1982.  His military government practiced large-scale violations of human rights and spread counter-insurgency terror among the peasantry.  It constituted a brief, but terrible episode in the Guatemalan Civil War, which lasted until 1996. Harris Whitbeck Pinol is an upper-class Guatemalan businessman.  Whitbeck was a presidential candidate for Guatemala's Partido Patriota or Patriotic Party (PP) during national elections held in 2003.  Whitbeck had previously been in the Frente Republicano Guatemalteco or Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the political party founded in 1989 by the former Guatemalan strongman and president, former Brigadier General Efraín Ríos Montt, a Christian evangelist who seized power in a coup toppling then dictator General Romeo Lucas García in 1982.  Montt's regime was favored by Ronald Reagan's administration as a staunch U.S. ally and anti-communist bulwark during the turbulent 1980's when civil wars plagued Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.  Prior to breaking away from the FRG, Harris Whitbeck had been one of Rios Montt's closest advisers. General Siho Lanphouthacoul (1934 – September 1966) used his powers as the National Director of Coordination to build Laotian police forces into a national power.  Appointed as Director prior to the August 1960 coup by Kong Le, Siho gathered and trained two special battalions of paramilitary police during the latter part of 1960.  When his patron, General Phoumi Nosavan, seized power in December 1960, Siho's new battalions helped carry the day at the Battle of Vientiane.  Acquiring the National Police from the Ministry of the Interior, and co-opting local military police, Siho consolidated the Lao police into the Directorate of National Coordination.  Attaining a strength of 6,500 men, the DNC would be Siho's instrument for his short-lived 18 April 1964 coup. The Civil Defense Patrols (Spanish: "Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil" , PAC) were local militias created by the government of Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War.  They were created by decree of General Ríos Montt on 1 August 1982, though they began before that under President Fernando Romeo Lucas García.  Officially, participation was voluntary, but many were forced to join.  The patrols officially stopped 29 December 1996 per the peace treaty that ended the war, though some of the network remained and was used by former members demanding compensation for their involvement.  Estimates vary, but statistics generally state that around 1,000,000 people were members of the patrols at the height of the war in 1983.  The members tortured and killed other villagers, sometimes at the threat of being killed themselves. General Fernando Romeo Lucas García (b. San Juan Chamelco, Alta Verapaz, 4 July 1924 – d. Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, 27 May 2006) was the 25th President of Guatemala from 1 July 1978 to 23 March 1982.  He was democratically elected as Institutional Democratic Party candidate (with the support of the Revolutionary Party).  Elections for his presidency were fraud-ridden.  During Lucas García's regime, tensions between the radical left and the government increased.  The military started to murder political opponents while counterinsurgency measures more and more terrorized the peasant population. Brigadier General Aung Gyi (Burmese: အောင်ကြီး ] ; 16 February 1919 – 25 October 2012) was a Burmese politician and a member of General Ne Win's 4th Burma Rifles rising to Brigadier General.  He was born to a Burmese Chinese family in Paungde, British Burma in 1919.  He played a role in the caretaker government of 1958-60 led by Ne Win.  Aung Gyi was number two in the Union Revolutionary Council set up after the 1962 coup, serving as vice-chief of staff and Minister of Trade and Industry until he was forced to resign on 8 February 1963 because of disagreements over economic policy with Ba Nyein and Tin Pe.  He was once known as Ne Win's heir apparent.  In his memoirs, "Saturday's Son", published in 1974, U Nu, then Prime Minister of Myanmar, claimed that his handover of power to the caretaker government was not voluntary but that a group of Army Officers led by Brigadier Aung Gyi and Brigadier Maung Maung threatened him with a "straight military coup" should he refuse to handover power to Ne Win.  The suggestion that this coup was mainly led by Brigadier Aung Gyi and Maung Maung was supported Col Hla Maw, former commanding officer of 11th Brigade. Francisco Villagrán Kramer (5 April 1927 – 12 July 2011) was a Guatemalan legal scholar and social democrat who served as vice president under General Romeo Lucas García beginning in 1978.  He resigned from office on 1 September 1980, before his term ended, citing differences with the Lucas administration and disapproval of Guatemala's worsening human rights situation.  He then went into voluntary exile in the United States, taking a position in the Legal Department of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Answer: June 16, 1926