 Two former Guatemalan heads of state, General Efraín Ríos Montt and Jorge Serrano Elías have been practicing Evangelical Protestants, as is Guatemala's current President, Jimmy Morales.General Montt, an Evangelical from the Pentecostal tradition, came to power through a coup.He escalated the war against leftist guerrilla insurgents as a holy war against atheistic "forces of evil".