The Unionist Party is a conservative political party in Guatemala, who advocates the re-creation of a Central American union.
Edgar Eladio Estrada Solís, popularly known as "El Gato", is a Guatemalan former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for several clubs in Guatemala's top division. He was capped 71 times for the Guatemala national team.
Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG")– a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala", or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters) – was a Guatemalan political party; encuentro may also translate as "gathering", "meeting", or "union".
Jhonny Cubero Quesada is a Costa Rican professional footballer who last played for Coatepeque in Guatemala.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Guatemala, and is carried out by lethal injection and, to a lesser extent, the firing squad. The death penalty today remains only in Guatemala's military codes of justice, and was abolished for civilian offences in October 2017.
Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elías is a Guatemalan politician who served as the first female Vice President of Guatemala from 2012 until her resignation amid a corruption scandal in 2015. In 2018, she was sentenced to 15½ years in prison for illicit association, fraud, and influence peddling, and to 16 years in 2022 for illicit association and customs fraud for her part in the La Linea corruption ring.
The Central American Championships in Athletics is an athletics event organized by the Confederación Atlética del Istmo Centroamericano CADICA open for athletes from member associations.
Guatemala and Mexico are neighboring nations who established diplomatic relations in 1848. In January 1959 both nations broke diplomatic relations as a result of the Mexico–Guatemala conflict, however, diplomatic relations were re-established 8 months later in September of that same year. Since then diplomatic relations have continued unabated since. Diplomatic relations between both nations are based on close proximity, trade, cultural similarities and a shared history.
Mario López Estrada was a Guatemalan telecommunications businessman and billionaire. He was the president and main shareholder of Tigo Guatemala.
Jimmy Ernesto Morales Cabrera is a Guatemalan politician, actor, and comedian who served as the 50th president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020.
Todos is a political party in Guatemala.
Murder of Danilo López and Federico Salazar is about the murders of two Guatemalan journalists that happened in Mazatenango Park, Mazatenango, located in the southern part of Suchitepéquez Department, Guatemala. Another journalist, Marvin Túnchez, was an injured victim of them same attack but survived. In the same area, camera operator Giovanni Guido Villatoro was killed in an unrelated crime just days after the deadly attack on the first three journalists.
Central American migrant caravans, also known as the Viacrucis del migrante, are migrant caravans that travel from Central America to the Mexico–United States border to demand asylum in the United States. The largest and best known of these were organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras that set off during Holy Week in early 2017 and 2018 from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), but such caravans of migrants began arriving several years earlier, and other unrelated caravans continued to arrive into late 2018.
Heinz Harold Heimann Ochaita is a Guatemalan writer and academic who served as the presidential spokesperson for the Jimmy Morales government from January 14, 2016, until June 19, 2018.
The National Civil Police is the police force of Guatemala and is an agency of the Guatemalan Ministry of the Interior. The PNC is in charge of protecting public order.
The following lists events in the year 2020 in Guatemala.
The following lists events that happened during 2020 in Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats in Congress, all 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all the country's 340 municipalities. Incumbent president Alejandro Giammattei was constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term. However, as no presidential candidate obtained over 50 percent of the vote in the first round on 25 June 2023, a second round was held between the top two finishers on 20 August 2023: Congressman Bernardo Arévalo of the Movimiento Semilla and Sandra Torres, a former first lady representing the National Unity of Hope (UNE) party. Arévalo defeated Torres in the second round with nearly 61 percent of the vote in what was seen as a landslide. The ruling Vamos party won the largest number of seats in Congress.
