Guatemala City,known locally as Guatemala or Guate,is the capital and largest city of Guatemala,and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country,nestled in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita. The city is the capital of the Municipality of Guatemala and of the Guatemala Department.
Álvaro Enrique ArzúYrigoyen was a Guatemalan politician and businessman who served as the 32nd President of Guatemala from 14 January 1996 until 14 January 2000. He was elected Mayor of Guatemala City on six occasions:in 1982,when he declined taking office because of a coup d'état;in 1986;in 2003,after serving as president;in 2007;in 2011,and in 2015,for a term that would see him die in office.
Quetzaltenango is a department in the western highlands of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Quetzaltenango,the second largest city in Guatemala. The department is divided up into 24 municipalities. The inhabitants include Spanish-speaking Ladinos and the K'iche' and Mam Maya groups,both with their own Maya language. The department consists of mountainous terrain,with its principal river being the SamaláRiver. the department is seismically active,suffering from both earthquakes and volcanic activity.
Villa Canales is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala,situated 22 km south of the capital Guatemala City. As of the 2018 census,the city had a population of 124,680,making it the eleventh largest city in Guatemala.
Villa Nueva is a City in the Guatemala department of Guatemala. The city centre of Villa Nueva at Villa Nueva Central Park is located 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of Guatemala City. The city has a population of 618,397,making it the second largest in Guatemala Department,after Guatemala City. It was founded on 17 April 1763,long before Guatemala declared its independence from the Spanish Empire. The local economy largely depends on industry,with the municipality having some 100 factories that produce such products as textiles,metallurgical goods,and plastics. The area's agricultural products include rice,dairy,fruits,and vegetables.
Jorge Enrique Taiana is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician,currently serving as the country's Minister of Defense,since 10 August 2021. Taiana previously served as Foreign Minister in the administrations of President Néstor Kirchner and his successor,Cristina Fernández de Kirchner,from 2005 to 2010,and as a National Senator for Buenos Aires from 2019 to 2021.
Juan Luis Bosch Gutiérrez Guatemalan businessman,born in 1957. Son of Alfonso Bosch and Isabel Gutiérrez de Bosch,the chairwoman of Fundación Juan Bautista Gutiérrez. He is married to Elvira Molina de Bosch and has 4 children. He is the chairman of CMI Capital,a part of CMI,a family multi-Latin corporation founded in Guatemala in 1920. CMI currently employs over 40,000 people in 14 countries in 3 continents,creating investment,jobs,and development in the region. During over 45 years,Juan Luis Bosch has led the corporation's growth and expansion strategies. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Banco Industrial and PRONACA,a leading Ecuadorian food producer and distributor.
Lilia Guadalupe Merodio Reza is a Mexican politician,currently serving in the Senate and representing the state of Chihuahua.
Rafael Landívar University(Universidad Rafael Landívar) is a private Catholic coeducational higher education institution run by the Society of Jesus in Vista Hermosa III Guatemala. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1961. The main campus is in Zone 16 of Guatemala City and is known as Vista Hermosa III. There are satellite campuses in Quetzaltenango,Huehuetenango,Cobán,Zacapa,and other parts of the country. Many recent Guatemalan presidents have studied at the university,including Ramiro de León Carpio,Álvaro Arzú,and Óscar Berger.
Eduardo Suger Cofiño is a Swiss-born Guatemalan physicist,scholar,educator,and politician. He is one of the founders of Galileo University in Guatemala City and of the Suger Montano Institute. Suger was the first Central American to receive his PhD in physics.
Sandra Monterroso is a Guatemalan visual artist and designer. Art historian Virginia Pérez-Ratton writes about Monterroso's beginnings as a performance artist in Guatemala during 1999 and 2000. Alongside her were other Guatemalan female performers like Regina JoséGalindo,Maria Adela Díaz,and Jessica Lagunas. Recently Monterroso's work focuses not only in performance art,she works with different media as videoart,installations and mix media. Her work is related to power structures,gender issues and decolonial thinking. Her work is included in the Artist Pension Trust.
Lucrecia Méndez de Penedo is a Guatemalan university professor,essayist,researcher,and literary and art critic. She has been instrumental in rescuing some of Guatemala's literary heritage from obscurity.
Luz Méndez de la Vega was a Guatemalan feminist writer,journalist,poet,academic and actress. As an academic,she concentrated on researching and rescuing the work of colonial Guatemalan women writers. She was the winner of Guatemala's highest prize for literature,Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize,and the Chilean Pablo Neruda Medal,among many other literary awards throughout her career.
Daniel Enrique Salaverry Villa is a Peruvian architect,businessman and politician. Between 2016 and 2019,he served in Congress representing the Department of La Libertad. Elected to Congress under the Fujimorist Popular Force party,he was the party's spokesperson for a year,and was President of the Congress from 2018 to 2019. He ran as a candidate for the presidency of Peru for the We Are Peru party in the 2021 general elections.
Óscar Stuardo Chinchilla Guzmán is a Guatemalan politician. He was President of the Congress of Guatemala between 14 January 2017 and 14 January 2018.
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.
Lucrecia Hernández Mack is a Guatemalan physician and politician. In July 2016,she became the first woman to head the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of Guatemala. In 2017,she resigned from her position in protest over President Jimmy Morales ordering the expulsion of United Nations anti-corruption investigator Iván Velásquez Gómez.
César Guillermo Castillo Reyes is a Guatemalan politician and lawyer who is the incumbent Vice President of Guatemala. Castillo graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in 1998 and then completed a master's degree in human rights at the Rafael Landívar University.
Manuel Ricardo Villacorta Orantes is a Guatemalan politician,professor and writer. He served as Guatemala's ambassador to Israel from 1999 to 2000,was also a presidential candidate in 2019,where he placed in seventh place with 5.2% of the vote.
General elections will be held in Guatemala in 25 June 2023 to elect the President and Congress,with a second round of the presidential elections to be held in 20 August if no candidate wins a majority in the first round.
