2022 in Guatemala

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See also:	Other events of 2022 Timeline of Guatemalan history

See also: 2022 in Central America and 2022 in the Caribbean

The following lists events in the year 2022 in Guatemala .

Incumbents

• President: Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla (since 2020)
• Vice-President: César Guillermo Castillo Reyes (since 2020)

Events

Further information: Public holidays in Guatemala

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala

• 16 February – 2022 Guatemala earthquake: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes southern Guatemala, causing light damage, landslides, three deaths from heart attacks, and injuring two people. ^[1]
• 8 March – Journalist Orlando Villanueva is killed in Puerto Barrios. ^[2]
• 16 May – President Alejandro Giammattei reappoints Consuelo Porras as Attorney General amid a flawed selection process. ^[2]
• 9 July – Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. ^[3]
• 25 June – Guatemala Pride returns after two years, drawing over 10,000 participants and featuring embassy delegations. ^[4]
• 30 July – Armed civilians attack a checkpoint during President Giammattei’s visit to La Laguna, Huehuetenango; one person is injured, four arrested, the president is unharmed, and the official account is questioned. ^[5]
• 11 August – Demonstrators protest alleged government corruption outside Guatemala’s National Palace of Culture. ^[2]
• 16 November – Prosecutors accuse President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and Vice President-elect Karin Herrera of backing university protests, and request to strip their political immunity. ^[6]

Deaths

• January 6 – Rómulo Méndez, 83, football referee ^[7]
• February 17 – Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Verapaz (1971–2001) ^[8]
• February 24 – Roberto Carpio, 91, politician, vice president (1986–1991) ^[9]
• March 14 – José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa, 92, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Guatemala (1967–2010) ^[10]

See also

• COVID-19 pandemic in North America
• 2020s
• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2020s in political history

References

1. "Sismo de 6.2 grados deja a tres muertos en Guatemala". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
2. Human Rights Watch (2023-01-12), "Guatemala: Events of 2022", Human Rights Watch, retrieved 2025-08-06
3. "Guatemala aumenta a 66 sus municipios en alerta roja por la covid-19". Infobae (in European Spanish). 9 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
4. "Pride 2022: una fiesta de resistencia a la existencia diversa". No-Ficción (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
5. Solórzano, Andrea (2022-07-31). "Gobierno manipula, en momento álgido, con "atentado"". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-06.
6. Abbott, Jeff. "What's behind efforts to strip Guatemala's president-elect of his immunity?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
7. "Fallece Rómulo Méndez el árbitro guatemalteco que estuvo en los mundiales de 1982 y 1986" (in Spanish). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
8. "Fallece Monseñor Gerardo Flores, obispo emérito de La Verapaz". www.soy502.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
9. "Former Vice President of Guatemala Roberto Carpio Nicolle dies at 92 – Prensa Libre - D1SoftballNews.com". 2022-02-25. Archived from the original on 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
10. "Bishop José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-09-14.

External links

Media related to 2022 in Guatemala at Wikimedia Commons

• 13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say (by Kate Linthicum & Jeff Abbott, January 30, 2021, Los Angeles Times