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) 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.

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