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Central American migrant caravans, [1] also known as the Viacrucis del migrante ("Migrant's Way of the Cross"), [2] [3] [4] are migrant caravans that travel from Central America to the Mexico–United States border to demand asylum in the United States.
Guatemala's passport requires two fingerprints and a photograph and signature. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Bank on California , a program launched by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2008, encourages financial institutions to accept the Mexican CID, Guatemalan CID and other CID cards as primary identification for opening bank accounts.
Article 3 of the treaty of September 27, 1882, defines the Guatemala-Mexico border as follows: [1] The line along the middle of the Suchiate River, from a point situated in the sea three leagues from its mouth, up river, along its deepest channel, as far as the point [Vertice de Muxbal] where the same river intersects the vertical plane that passes the highest part of the volcano of Tacana ...
Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Early European immigrants to Guatemala were Spaniards who conquered the indigenous Maya population in 1524. They ruled for almost 300 years. Although the Spanish conquest of Guatemala was primarily the result of its technical superiority, the Spaniards were helped by Nahua allies from central Mexico, and by indigenous Maya who were already involved in bitter struggles ...
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan revealed Tuesday that he will meet with Eric Adams later this week in an effort to secure a commitment from the New York City mayor to help round up and ...
Petén (from the Itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala.It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well as the largest by area – at 35,854 km 2 (13,843 sq mi) it accounts for about one third of Guatemala's area.
According to the United States assessment of Guatemala in relation to human trafficking, Guatemala was on the Tier 2 watch list for human trafficking in 2017. [1] The country was placed at Tier 2 in 2023. [17] In 2023, the Organised Crime Index noted that the crime was carried out by small local gangs as well as larger organised groups. [18]
The National Statistics Institute of Guatemala (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Guatemala, INE) is the statistics agency of the Government of Guatemala. It has responsibility to collect, prepare, and publish official statistics.