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Fernando Romeo Lucas García

37th President of Guatemala from 1978 to 1982

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 9, 2026
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Fernando Romeo Lucas García was a military officer and politician who served as the 37th president of Guatemala from July 1, 1978, to March 23, 1982. He was elected as the nominee for the Institutional Democratic Party. During Lucas García's regime, tensions between the radical left and the government increased. The military started to murder political opponents while counterinsurgency measures further terrorized populations of poor civilians.

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The public source identifies “Fernando Romeo Lucas García” as 37th President of Guatemala from 1978 to 1982. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fernando, Romeo and Lucas.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fernando Romeo Lucas García” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.