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Francisco Villagrán Kramer

Villagrán later served on the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations' International Law Commission. In 1994, he was elected to the Guatemalan Congress, where he was president of the Committee on Human Rights.
In 1997, he was nominated for a seat on the OAS's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The nomination raised strong criticism based on the allegation that death squads had been active in Guatemala during his time as vice president.
Villagrán authored over two dozen books and dozens of articles on international law and Guatemalan history and politics. In ''Biografía Política de Guatemala'', he described his involvement with the Lucas administration as a failed attempt to exert a moderating influence on an authoritarian regime. Provided by Wikipedia