Editing Scorched earth (section)

===Guatemalan Civil War===
[[Efraín Ríos Montt]] used the policy in [[Guatemala]]'s highlands in 1981 and 1982, but it had been used under the previous president, [[Fernando Romeo Lucas García]]. Upon entering office, Ríos Montt implemented a new counterinsurgency strategy that called for the use of scorched earth to combat the [[Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity]] rebels. [[Plan Victoria 82]] was more commonly known by the nickname of the rural pacification elements of the strategy, ''Fusiles y Frijoles'' (Bullets and Beans).{{sfn|Schirmer|1998}}  Ríos Montt's policies resulted in the death of thousands, most of them indigenous [[Maya peoples|Mayans]].