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Rigoberta Menchú was born to a poor Indigenous family of K'iche' Maya descent in Laj Chimel, a rural area in the north-central Guatemalan province of El Quiché. [5] Her family was one of many Indigenous families who could not sustain themselves on the small pieces of land they were left with after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. [6]
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 ...
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
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.
Guatemala has a population of 17,153,288 (July 2020 est). [5] In 1900, Guatemala had a population of 885,000. [6] Guatemala had the fastest population growth in the Western Hemisphere during 20th century. Approximately half of the Guatemalan population lives in poverty and 13.7% of them live in extreme poverty. Guatemala is heavily centralized.
Francisco de Paula García y Peláez (April 2, 1785 – January 25, 1867 [1]) was a Guatemalan historian [2] who served as Archbishop of Guatemala from 1845 until his death. He is known for publishing Memorias para la Historia del Antiguo Reino de Guatemala (English: Memoirs for the History of the Ancient Kingdom of Guatemala) in 1852, a three-volume work focused on Guatemala's colonial era.
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 ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly a decade after Guatemalan authorities were told that Mexico had sent the wrong body to a Guatemalan family searching for their missing teenage relative, that unidentified body is still buried in Guatemala and the family’s relative is lying in a Mexico City morgue.