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 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.
Jesús Polanco Gutiérrez,also known as Jesús de Polanco,was a businessman from Spain who built one of the largest media empires in the world. In 2005,he was ranked 3rd richest person in Spain and at number 210 in Forbes World's Richest People list,and was number 258 in 2006.
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.
Olivia Heussler is a Swiss photographer known for her photos of major political,historical and cultural events.
Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG")–a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala",or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters) –was a Guatemalan political party;encuentro may also translate as "gathering","meeting",or "union".
The National Change Union,sometimes translated as the Union of National Change,was a national liberal political party in Guatemala.
Mario Polanco is a Guatemalan human rights activist. He is a founding member and,currently the Director of,the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo in Guatemala City,one of the country's oldest human rights organizations. He is married to Member of Congress Nineth Montenegro. Polanco has been the victim of numerous death threats and attacks on his life.
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.
Loretta Ann Pargas Rosales is a Filipina activist,teacher and politician who has served three terms as the party-list representative of the Akbayan Citizens' Action Party to the Philippines' House of Representatives from the 11th-13th Congress (1998-2007). She was the Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2015.
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.
Alaíde Foppa was a Guatemalan poet,writer,feminist,art critic,teacher and translator. Born in Barcelona,Spain she held Guatemalan citizenship and lived in exile in Mexico. She worked as a professor in both Guatemala and Mexico. Much of her poetry was published in Mexico and she co-founded one of the first feminist publications,Fem,in the country. After her husband's death,she made a trip to Guatemala to see her mother and renew her passport. She was detained and disappeared in Guatemala City on 19 December 1980,presumed to be murdered. Some sources note the date of her disappearance as 9 December 1980.
Myriam Bregman is an Argentine lawyer,activist,and politician. Raised in a Jewish family,Bregman joined the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) –a Trotskyist Argentine party of which she is among the most prominent members –while studying a degree in law at the University of Buenos Aires in the 90s.
Abortion in Guatemala is illegal,except when needed to save the woman's life. Abortion was illegal without exception prior to 1973. Congressional Decree 17-73 altered the penal code to allow abortion in cases in which the pregnant woman's life is endangered in September 1973. The procedure must be done by a physician and approved by a second doctor.
María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos is a Spanish lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for Ciudadanos since 2019. She previously was a Deputy of the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.
The following lists events in the year 2020 in Guatemala.
Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM) is a Guatemalan organization. It is a collaboration between two of Guatemala's longest standing human rights-based NGO,Grupo De Apoyo Mutuo and Haverford College Libraries. GAM itself was founded in 1984 during the internal armed conflict with a group of people looking for their missing loved ones. The relationship between GAM and Haverford College Libraries began when a Haverford professor and GAM met while researching in Guatemala. Both parties shared a common interest in preserving GAM's archive and they quickly collaborated. The main goal of GAM is to bring together the families of people who forcibly disappeared during the Guatemalan Civil War from 1960 to 1996 and to seek justice for people who disappeared.
Rita Maria Cid Matias is a Portuguese political scientist and politician. In the 2022 Portuguese legislative election,she was elected as a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal representing the right-wing Chega party. She was the only woman out of 12 members of Chega elected in the 2022 Portuguese legislative election,becoming in that year the first female member of the parliament in the history of the party.
Iduvina Hernández is a Guatemalan journalist and internationally-known human rights activist. Her work has involved analyzing democracy and state security. Specifically,her research has focused on the violence which occurred during the Guatemalan Civil War and rebuilding the structures to support the country's democracy. In her childhood,her father was threatened by the National Civil Police and her husband was killed in 1984. She interrupted her education after his murder and moved to Mexico,living in exile there and working as a journalist until 1989. After her return to Guatemala,Hernández wrote articles focused on the war and counterinsurgency for Crónica magazine.
Mario Méndez Montenegro was an assassinated politician and the first elected mayor of Guatemala City.
