Civilian supporters of president-elect Ángel Aníbal Guevara protest in the streets a day after a coup d'état successfully prevented Guevara from assuming power, Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 24, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the March 7th elections against Guevara, who was the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.