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El Salvador and Guatemala maintain bilateral relations. El Salvador has an embassy in Guatemala City. [1] Guatemala has an embassy in San Salvador. [2] Both countries are members of the Central American Integration System, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Organization of American States, and the Organization of Ibero-American ...
The Chapultepec Peace Accords. For Maurice Lemoine, French intellectual “at the negotiating table, puts an end to a sixty-year-old military hegemony and will allow a deep reform of the State based on a series of unprecedented measures: respect for universal suffrage; reform of the judiciary; constitutional reform; separation of Defense and Public Security, downsizing of the army, creation of ...
The Guatemalan Peace Process was a series of negotiations occurring from 1994 to 1996, to resolve the Guatemalan Civil War.. The negotiations resulted in the signing of "The Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace" by the government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) on December 29, 1996.
The Usumacinta River (Spanish pronunciation: [usumaˈsinta]; named after the howler monkey) is a river in southeastern Mexico and northwestern Guatemala. It is formed by the junction of the Pasión River , which arises in the Sierra de Santa Cruz (in Guatemala) and the Salinas River , also known as the Rio Chixoy , or the Rio Negro, which ...
On September 15, 1959, during a speech regarding the 149th anniversary of the Grito de Dolores, Adolfo López Mateos announced that, through mediation on both sides, Guatemala and Mexico were reestablishing relations. [3] Soon afterwards, Guatemala compensated the families of the injured and dead fishermen and formally apologized for the ...
Lachuá Lake is a karstic lake in Guatemala. It is located in the middle of a national park covered with tropical rain forest, northwest of Cobán, near the border between the departments of Alta Verapaz and El Quiché. The lake is near circular in shape and is probably a cenote or doline.
On March 27, 2022, the government of El Salvador, chaired by Nayib Bukele since June 1, 2019, declared a state of national emergency after recording a significant increase in homicides. Between March 25 and 27, 87 murders were reported, which represented the highest number of violent deaths in a weekend since the Salvadoran civil war ended in 1992.
Laguna de Ipala is a crater lake in Guatemala. The lake is located in the limits of the Departments of Jutiapa and Chiquimula, at the bottom of the one kilometre (0.62 mi) wide crater of the Ipala Volcano. The lake has a surface area of 0.52 km 2 (0.20 sq mi) and is situated at an altitude of 1,493 m (4,898 ft). [3]