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Elektra is a Mexican retail chain founded in 1950 by Hugo Salinas Price in Mexico City. The company is part of Grupo Elektra [ 1 ] and has nearly 1,300 locations across Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. [ 2 ]
Grupo Elektra is a Mexican financial and retail corporation founded in 1950 by Hugo Salinas Price. The company currently operates over seven thousand points of contact across Mexico, United States , [ 5 ] and Central America, [ 6 ] through two business divisions: commercial and financial. [ 7 ]
All de jure present currencies in the Americas are listed here, including currencies from countries which are not sovereign states or dependencies. A commonly used currency in the Americas is the United States dollar. [1]
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".
In 1946, the Bank of Guatemala took over the issuance of paper money, with the first issues being overprints on notes of the Central Bank. Except for the introduction of 50 quetzal notes in 1967, the denominations of banknotes remained unchanged until 1 ⁄ 2 and 1 quetzal coins replaced notes at the end of the 1990s.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo was sworn in as Guatemala's president in the early hours of Monday after a chaotic inauguration that was delayed for hours by a ...
As on the first US flag, the stars and stripes stand for the 13 original states of the union. The eagle holds a ribbon in its beak reading "E PLURIBUS UNUM", a Latin phrase meaning "Out of many [states], one [nation]", a de facto motto of the United States (and the only one until 1956). Both the phrases "E Pluribus Unum" and "Annuit coeptis ...
Livingston is a town in Izabal Department, eastern Guatemala, at the mouth of the Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras. The town serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios.