Álvaro Colom Caballeros was a Guatemalan engineer,businessman,and politician who served as the 47th president of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012,as well as the General-Secretary of the political party,National Unity of Hope (UNE).
The Unionist Party is a conservative political party in Guatemala,who advocates the re-creation of a Central American union.
Dionisio Gutiérrez Mayorga is a Guatemalan businessman and media personality. He is currently the President of Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo.
The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala was an international body charged with investigating and prosecuting serious crime in Guatemala. On January 7,2019,the agreement between the United Nations and Guatemala was terminated by Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales,evoking CICIG's alleged participation in illegal acts,abuse of authority and acts against the constitution. The UN rejected this unilateral termination,and the country's highest law court ruled against the president's decision. CICIG's term was scheduled to end in September 2019. Morales' decision,approved by the country's business elite,triggered an institutional crisis in Guatemala,as the Constitutional court sided with CICIG. Morales is being investigated concerning his campaign financing.
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 15½years 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 La Línea corruption case began in Guatemala on April 16,2015 when the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala and State prosecutors accused a number of politicians in the administration of President Otto Pérez Molina of setting up a customs corruption ring with the help of high-ranking officials in the tax and customs administration. Several demonstrations ensued,calling for the resignation of Pérez Molina and his vice-president Roxana Baldetti. Among the accused were the retired captain Juan Carlos Monzón,and the directors of the Tax Administration Superintendency or Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria,(SAT),an entity analogous to the US Internal Revenue Service. Baldetti resigned in early May to the joy of thousands of demonstrators.
James Ernesto Morales Cabrera is a Guatemalan politician,actor,and comedian who served as the 50th president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020.
Thelma Esperanza Aldana Hernández is a Guatemalan jurist and politician who served as President of the Supreme Court from 2011 to 2012 and as attorney general from 2014 to 2018.
The 2017 Guatemala orphanage fire occurred on 8 March 2017,at the Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home in San JoséPinula,Guatemala. Forty-one girls,aged between 14 and 17 years old,were killed when a fire broke out at the orphanage. The girls had been locked in a schoolroom following protests,riots and an escape attempt which occurred the day before. In the aftermath of the fire,three government officials—including the country's Secretary of Social Welfare—were arrested and charged with crimes such as wrongful death and negligence.
Acisclo Valladares Urruela is a Guatemalan attorney and notary who served as Economics Minister during the administration of President Jimmy Morales. Previously he held the post of Special Mission Appointed Ambassador to attend to the international agenda related to the Alliance for the Prosperity of the North Triangle Plan and General Coordinator of the executive committee of the National Competitiveness Program,PRONACOM.
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.
María Consuelo Porras Argueta is a Guatemalan attorney who has been serving as the attorney general of Guatemala since 2018. She previously served as Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2016 to 2018. President Jimmy Morales nominated Porras as the new Attorney General and Chief of the Public Prosecutor's Office in May 2018,succeeding Thelma Aldana.
Movimiento Semilla is a centre-left,progressive,social-democratic political party in Guatemala. On 14 January 2024,it became Guatemala's governing party following the inauguration of President Bernardo Arévalo.
Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla is a Guatemalan politician who was the 51st president of Guatemala from 2020 to 2024.
Víctor Manuel Alejandro Martínez Ruiz is a Guatemalan economist and politician who served as the Minister of Public Finance from September 2018 to January 2020. He currently is the First Councilor of Guatemala City.
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.
Silvia Patricia Valdés Quezada is a lawyer who served as the third female president of the Supreme Court of Justice and the judicial branch of Guatemala,from 2019 until 2023.
The following lists events in the year 2023 in Guatemala.
Rodolfo Antonio Delgado Montes is a Salvadoran lawyer who currently serves as the attorney general of El Salvador. He was appointed as attorney general by the Legislative Assembly in May 2021 after his predecessor,Raúl Melara,was removed by the Nuevas Ideas-led legislature. Prior to his appointment as attorney general,he worked for the Office of the Attorney General from 1995 to 2017 in various roles.
Bernardo Arévalo,the president-elect of Guatemala,completed his transition to the presidency upon being sworn in on the 15th of January 2024. He became the candidate of Semilla in January 2020. Vice-president-elect Karin Herrera led Arévalo's transition team.
