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The preamble to the current Constitution of the Republic is: Calling on the name of God We, the representatives of the people of Guatemala, elected freely and democratically, meeting in National Constituent Assembly in order to organize legally and politically the State; affirming the primacy of the human person as the subject and purpose of social order; recognizing the family as the primary ...
Appointed by President Ramiro de León Carpio; Guatemala's first Attorney General. * Héctor Hugo Pérez Aguilera [3] March 15, 1996 – May 14, 1998: Interim Attorney General named by President Álvaro Arzú. 2: Adolfo González Rodas [4] May 15, 1998 – May 17, 2002: Appointed. 3: Carlos David de León Argueta [citation needed] [5]
The Court was established by Guatemala's 1985 Constitution. [1] The 1985 Constitution was written after the suspension of the prior constitution as part of Efraín Ríos Montt's Coup d'état on March 23, 1982. His regime suspended the constitution and the subsequent years demonstrated the need for stronger protections and thus a new constitution.
In most legal systems of the Spanish-speaking world, the writ of amparo ("writ of protection"; also called recurso de amparo, "appeal for protection", or juicio de amparo, "judgement for protection") is a remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, found in certain jurisdictions. [1]
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Law VI (Audiencia y Chancillería Real de Santiago de Guatemala en la Nueva España) of Title XV (De las Audiencias y Chancillerias Reales de las Indias) of Book II of the Recopilación de Leyes de las Indias of 1680—which compiles the decrees of September 13, 1543; August 6, 1556; September 16, 1560; May 31 and June 18, 1568; November 10 ...
Rates of crime in Guatemala are very high. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. [ citation needed ] In the 1990s Guatemala had four cities feature in Latin America's top ten cities by murder rate: Escuintla (165 per 100,000), Izabal (127), Santa Rosa Cuilapa (111 ...
In November 1970, Fuentes Mohr was detained by the government of Colonel Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio and forced into exile. From 1970 to 1974, he taught at the National University of Costa Rica. [4] In 1974, Fuentes Mohr returned to Guatemala and ran as a candidate for the vice-presidency for the Frente Nacional de Oposición in the 1974 elections.