Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north,the Caribbean Sea to the east,and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a maritime boundary with Honduras to the southeast. Belize is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),and is considered part of the Caribbean region and the historical British West Indies.
Guatemala City,is the national capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala. It is also a municipality capital of the Guatemala Department and the most populous urban metropolitan area in the region of Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country,nestled in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita.
This is a demography of the population of Guatemala including population density,ethnicity,education level,health of the populace,economic status,religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The economy of Guatemala is a considered a developing economy,highly dependent on agriculture,particularly on traditional crops such as coffee,sugar,and bananas. Guatemala's GDP per capita is roughly one-third of Brazil's. The Guatemalan economy is the largest in Central America. It grew 3.3 percent on average from 2015 to 2018. However,Guatemala remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean,having highly unequal incomes and chronically malnourished children. The country is beset by political insecurity,and lacks skilled workers and infrastructure. It depends on remittances for nearly one-tenth of the GDP.
Guatemala's major diplomatic interests are regional security and increasingly,regional development and economic integration.
Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950,before he became the second democratically elected President of Guatemala,from 1951 to 1954. He was a major figure in the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution,which represented some of the few years of representative democracy in Guatemalan history. The landmark program of agrarian reform Árbenz enacted as president was very influential across Latin America.
Rigoberta MenchúTum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist,feminist,and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchúhas dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996),and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.
The Federal Republic of Central America,initially known as the United Provinces of Central America,was a sovereign state in Central America that existed between 1823 and 1839/1841. The republic was composed of five states,and a Federal District from 1835 to 1839. Guatemala City was its capital city until 1834,when the seat of government was relocated to San Salvador. The Federal Republic of Central America was bordered on the north by Mexico,on the south by Gran Colombia and on its eastern coastline by the Mosquito Coast and British Honduras,both claimed by the federal republic.
The president of Guatemala,officially titled President of the Republic of Guatemala,is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala,elected to a single four-year term. The position of President was created in 1839.
The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity is a Guatemalan political party that started as a guerrilla movement but laid down its arms in 1996 and became a legal political party in 1998 after the peace process which ended the Guatemalan Civil War.
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and marked the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas,the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala. The coup was largely the result of a CIA covert operation code-named PBSuccess.
The National Unity of Hope is a populist political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 2002 and defined itself as a social-democratic and social-Christian party,but since transformed and is now described as a right-wing party. It is the largest political party in Guatemala by the number of members.
The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and there were widespread human rights violations against civilians. The context of the struggle was based on longstanding issues of unfair land distribution. Wealthy Guatemalans,mainly of European descent and foreign companies like the American United Fruit Company had control over much of the land. They paid almost zero taxes in return–leading to conflicts with the rural indigenous poor who worked the land under miserable terms.
There is an unresolved territorial dispute between the states of Belize and Guatemala,neighbours in Central America. During the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s,Britain and Spain signed several treaties regarding territories in the Americas. Both nations agreed that the territory of modern-day Belize was under Spanish sovereignty though British settlers could use the land,in specific areas and for specific purposes. The area was never fully under British or Spanish rule at this time and the British settlers continually expanded far past the boundaries set by the treaties. When the Spanish Empire fell,Guatemala said that it inherited Spain's sovereign rights over the territory. Since independence Guatemala has claimed,in whole or in part,the territory of Belize.
There is a U.S. Embassy in Guatemala located in Guatemala City. According to the United States Department of State,relations between the United States and Guatemala have traditionally been close,although sometimes they are tense regarding human,civil,and military rights.
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,to the east by Honduras,and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) people in Guatemala face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. Both male and female forms of same-sex sexual activity are legal in Guatemala.
Winaq is a left-wing political party in Guatemala whose most notable member is Rigoberta Menchú,an ethnic K'iche'. Its roots are in the indigenous communities of Guatemala.
Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla is a Guatemalan politician who was the 51st president of Guatemala from 2020 to 2024.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala is 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.
