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The Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Peru to the Republic of Guatemala is the official representative of the Republic of Peru to the Republic of Guatemala. Both countries established relations in 1857, after Peruvian diplomat Pedro Gálvez Egúsquiza was sent in 1856 to Central America on a mission to establish and improve ...
Guatemala and Peru have long-standing bilateral and historical relations.Both countries are members of the United Nations (and its Group of 77), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Latin Union, the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the Organization of American States, the Organization of Ibero-American States, and the Cairns Group.
Guatemala's historic ethnic composition is mostly immigrant stock from Europe and as well as Asian and Africans brought during the era of slavery. Currently, the composition of Guatemala consists mostly of mestizos, Amerindians and Europeans, and to a lesser extent, Garifuna. In recent decades, immigration to Guatemala has led to an increase in ...
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Modern memorial stone in the ruins of Antigua cathedral, marking Pedro de Portocarrero's tomb. Pedro de Portocarrero (c. 1504 [1] – c. 1539) was a Spanish conquistador who was active in the early 16th century in Guatemala, and Chiapas in southern Mexico. [2]
Map of the provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala. The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Spanish: Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including present-day Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the ...
A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.
Villagrán de León was born in Guatemala City on 29 March 1954 to Francisco Villagrán Kramer (Vice-President of Guatemala from July 1978 to September 1980) and Alba Ruth de León Méndez. He earned a bachelor's degree in law and social sciences from Rafael Landívar University and, later, a master's degree from Georgetown University in the U ...