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5 February – President Bernardo Arévalo announces an agreement allowing for Guatemala to host migrants deported from the United States. [1] 10 February – 2025 Guatemala City bus crash. A bus falls off of a bridge over the Las Vacas River in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing at least 54 people, and seriously injuring 9 others. [2] [3]
The preamble to the current Constitution of the Republic is: Calling on the name of God We, the representatives of the people of Guatemala, elected freely and democratically, meeting in National Constituent Assembly in order to organize legally and politically the State; affirming the primacy of the human person as the subject and purpose of social order; recognizing the family as the primary ...
Antigua Guatemala (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtiɣwa ɣwateˈmala]), commonly known as Antigua or La Antigua, is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala.The city was the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala from 1543 through 1773, with much of its Baroque-influenced architecture and layout dating from that period.
The Catholic Church in Guatemala is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under spiritual leadership of the Pope, Curia in Rome and the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala. There are approximately 7.7 [ 1 ] million Catholics in Guatemala , which is about 46% of the total population of 17.1 million citizens.
The period in the history of Guatemala between the coups against Jorge Ubico in 1944 and Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 is known locally as the Revolution (Spanish: La Revolución).It has also been called the Ten Years of Spring, highlighting the peak years of representative democracy in Guatemala from 1944 until the end of the civil war in 1996.
General de división: General de brigada: Coronel: Teniente coronel: Mayor: Capitán primero: Capitán segundo: Teniente: Subteniente: Rank group General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers
While Guatemala has made efforts to move beyond its past, the country still remains extremely divided. By 1984, the large-scale massacres were generally over, the army had set up new bases throughout the Mayan heartlands and had accrued unprecedented economic power through the seizure of vast tracts of productive land and a number of key state ...
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 ...