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Gobierno de Guatemala (1907). Álbum de Minerva 1907 (in Spanish). Vol. VII. Guatemala: Tipografía Nacional. Luján Muñoz, Jorge (1992). "Un ejemplo de uso de la tradición clásica en Guatemala: Las "Minervalias" establecidas por el presidente Manuel Estrada Cabrera" (PDF). Revista de la Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (in Spanish) (2 ...
The Indigenous peoples in Guatemala, also known as Native Guatemalans, are the original inhabitants of Guatemala, predating Spanish colonization.Guatemala is home to 6.5 million (43.75%) people of Indigenous heritage belonging to the 22 Mayan peoples (Achi’, Akatec, Awakatec, Chalchitec, Ch’ortí, Chuj, Itzá, Ixil, Jacaltec, Kaq- chikel, K’iche, Mam, Mopan, Poqomam, Poqomchí, Q’anjob ...
The Organization of People in Arms (Spanish: Organización del Pueblo en Armas, ORPA) was a Guatemalan guerrilla organization active in Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War. A split-off from the FAR of the 1960s, ORPA was critical of earlier guerrilla efforts in Guatemala, which they saw as a failure. ORPA focused its efforts primarily in ...
Pueblo a Pueblo is a 501(c)(3) organization that provides programs in health, education, and food security in rural communities in Latin America, especially Mayan communities in Guatemala. Background [ edit ]
The Awakatek (Awakateko) (in awakatek: Qatanum, "our people") are a indigenous Maya people located in the municiapality of Champotón, Campeche, México and in the municiaplity of Aguacatán in the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, place where they have their original settlement.
The Mam are an indigenous Maya people in the western highlands of Guatemala and in south-western Mexico who speak the Mam language. Most Mam (617,171) live in Guatemala, in the departments of Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. [3] [4] The Mam people in Mexico (23,632) live principally in the Soconusco region of Chiapas. [2]
It was created on December 12, 2006, when the United Nations and Guatemala signed a treaty-level agreement setting up CICIG as an independent body to support the Public Prosecutor's Office (Procuraduría General de la Nación), the National Civilian Police (Policía Nacional Civil) and other state institutions in the investigation of sensitive and difficult cases.
The image in its glass case. The Cristo Negro of Esquipulas is the earliest and most famous images of its kind, [4] and is the most venerated image in Central America. [7] It originated in this town, 222 km from the capital of Guatemala in 1595, when it was commissioned and made by Quirio Cataño.