Nineth Montenegro

Nineth Montenegro
Official portrait
Second Vice President of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
14 January 2012 – 14 January 2013
PresidentGudy Rivera
Preceded byCarlos López Girón
Succeeded byChristian Boussinot
Secretary General of Encuentro por Guatemala
In office
14 April 2007 – 27 February 2020
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Deputy of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
14 January 1996 – 14 January 2020
ConstituencyNational List
Personal details
Born1958
San Marcos, Guatemala
Political partyEncuentro por Guatemala

Nineth Varenca Montenegro Cottom (born 1958 in San Marcos, Guatemala)[1] is a Guatemalan human rights activist and a victim of state terrorism. She was the first person to face civil resistance on a national level as a result of protesting in the streets about the whereabouts of her husband, Edgar Fernando García, who had been captured illegally by the government and has been a missing person since February 18, 1984. The disappearance of her husband still remains an unsolved case, as he is considered a disappeared person.[citation needed]

She is married to Mario Polanco, the current director of GAM (Spanish: Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo). [citation needed]

  1. ^ Jung, Wilma (2002). "Quem é quem na América Latina". latinoamericana.org. Archived from the original on 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2017-10-20.