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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Guatemala .
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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Guatemala .
April 25-September 6 2015: The 2015 Guatemalan Revolution takes place and ousts the government.
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Otto Fernando Pérez Molina is a Guatemalan politician and retired general, who was President of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015. Standing as the Patriotic Party candidate, he lost the 2007 presidential election but prevailed in the 2011 presidential election. During the 1990s, before entering politics, he served as Director of Military Intelligence, Presidential Chief of Staff under President Ramiro de León Carpio, and as chief representative of the military for the Guatemalan Peace Accords. On being elected President, he called for the legalization of drugs.
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador and to the south by the Pacific Ocean. With an estimated population of around 17.6 million, Guatemala is the most populous country in Central America and the 11th most populous country in the Americas. It is a representative democracy with its capital and largest city being Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, also known as Guatemala City, the most populous city in Central America.
The First Lady of Guatemala is the title held by the wife of the president of Guatemala or designee. Currently, the position of first lady has been vacant since January 2020 because Alejandro Giammattei is divorced.
General elections were held in Guatemala on 6 September 2015 to elect the President and Vice President, all 158 Congress deputies, all 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all 338 municipalities in the country.
Carlos Raúl Morales Moscoso is a Guatemalan diplomat and former government official. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala from September 2014 to August 2017.
Alejandro Baltazar Maldonado Aguirre is a Guatemalan statesman who served as the Acting President of Guatemala, following the Congress of Guatemala's acceptance of the resignation of President Otto Pérez Molina on September 3, 2015.
Juan Alfonso Fuentes Soria is a politician who was Vice President of Guatemala following the appointment of Alejandro Maldonado as president by the Congress of Guatemala. He is also a dentist who was rector of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Guatemala.
Vice presidential elections were held in Guatemala on 14 May 2015. Baldetti resigned from her post as vice president on May 8, 2015, after a U.N. anti-corruption investigation arrested 24 individuals, including her personal secretary Juan Carlos Monzón Rojas, for involvement in an import bribery scheme known as La Línea in which officials received bribes to reduce duties paid by importers. Baldetti was detained on fraud charges on August 21, 2015, while at the hospital. Reportedly, wiretaps of those implicated in the scandals appears to refer to her involvement with references to "the R", "the No.2" and "the lady." Her arrest was followed by allegations by prosecutor Thelma Aldana against President Molina, and protests calling for his resignation.
Vice presidential elections were held in Guatemala on September 16, 2015. In April 2015, international prosecutors, with help from the UN, presented evidence of a customs corruption ring in which discounted tariffs were exchanged for bribes from importers; prosecutors learned of the ring through wiretaps and financial statements. Vice President Roxana Baldetti resigned on 8 May, and was arrested for her involvement on 21 August. On 21 August, Guatemalan prosecutors presented evidence of Pérez's involvement in the corruption ring. Congress, in a 132–0 vote, stripped Pérez Molina of prosecutorial immunity on 1 September 2015, and, on 2 September, he presented his resignation from the Presidency.
General elections were held in Guatemala on 16 June 2019, to elect the President, Congress and local councils. A second round of the presidential elections was held on 11 August 2019, since no candidate won a majority in the first round. Alejandro Giammattei won the election in the second round of voting.
Williams Agberto Mansilla Fernández is a Guatemalan military officer who served as Minister of Defense from July 2015 until October 2017 during the presidencies of Otto Pérez Molina (2015), Alejandro Maldonado (2015–2016), and Jimmy Morales (2016–2017).
Ana Violeta Fagianni Enriquez de Maldonado is a Guatemalan diplomat, activist, and the former First Lady of Guatemala from 2015 until 2016. She is married to the former acting President Alejandro Maldonado.
Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla is a Guatemalan politician who has been serving as the president of Guatemala since 2020.
Roberto Molina Barreto is a Guatemalan lawyer and politician, who served as Attorney General of the Nation from 2005 to 2006, magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2006 to 2016 and from 2020 and President of the Constitutional Court on three occasions.
The following lists events in the year 2020 in Guatemala.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Guatemala in March 2020.
The following lists events in the year 2021 in Guatemala.
The Cabinet of Alejandro Maldonado was the forty-ninth cabinet of Guatemala.
The Council of Ministers of Guatemala governs the country through the executive branch of Guatemala. There is a total of 14 ministries, each headed by a Minister that is appointed by the president.
