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Aura Rosario Rosal López de Mejía (May 12, 1928 – November 3, 2021) [1] was the wife of former Guatemalan President Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores and First Lady of Guatemala from 1983 to 1986. Life
Ana Cofiño was born in a conservative and anti-communist Guatemalan family. She studied at a Catholic school for "well-off" girls, at which time she participated in the movement called CRATER, made up of young people who were involved in social programs as part of the church's renewal movement. [1]
CONAVIGUA's mission has been to support the families and victims of gender and racial oppression in Guatemala, primarily focusing on widows and orphans of women who were kidnapped and killed. [7] [8] The agency promotes advocacy for justice, particularly for the Mayan people who were disproportionately affected by the Guatemalan Genocide.
A Guatemalan family seeking asylum has been reunited in Massachusetts after challenging their separation under the Trump administration's controversial “Remain in Mexico” asylum process. The ...
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.
Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño (29 July 1934 – 6 September 2021), also referred to as Doña Yoly, [1] was a Chilean-Guatemalan businesswoman and philanthropist.She managed the McDonald's franchise in Guatemala from its start in 1974 and is recognized for having introduced a concept for a small children's menu to the company that would lead to the creation of the "Happy Meal".
The following year a body was sent to Yovanny’s family in Guatemala. The family buried it in a local plot without ever being allowed to see the remains. “With respect to Yovanny’s case, (the Forensic Commission) identified and later confirmed that the profile of the body handed over in 2012 did not coincide with his relatives,” the ...
Luisa Moreno (August 30, 1907 – November 4, 1992) was a Guatemalan social activist and participant in the United States labor movement.She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in both English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", [1] before returning to Guatemala in 1950.