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Portuguese: Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego: Agency overview; Formed: 2 May 1974; 50 years ago () Type: Ministry: Jurisdiction: Federal government of Brazil: Headquarters: Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco F Brasília, Federal District: Annual budget: $96.32 b BRL (2023) [1] Agency executives
A two real coin with the image of General Rafael Carrera, president of Guatemala between 1844 and 1865 and founder of the Republic of Guatemala in 1847. He was the first mestizo ruler of Latin America, and used Mataquescuintla as the center of operations for his military actions; he had the support of the mestizo and indigenous peasants of the region.
Historically, the area now included in the department of El Progreso was known as Guastatoya or Huastatoya, derived from Nahuatl huäxyötl or huäxin ("calabash") and atoyac ("last"), meaning the last place that calabashes grow, a reference to the change in altitude that occurs in the department, and corresponding climatic change from cold to hot.
Melchor de Mencos is a municipality in the Petén Department of Guatemala with population 23,813. It is situated on the eastern border with Belize, and is the only major border crossing from Guatemala to Belize.
In 1897, a novena booklet titled Novena o Pagsisiam sa Nuestra Señora de Guia ("Novena to Our Lady of Guidance") was published by the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila. The text recounts the image's origin story, where natives found it sitting on a trunk, and built a roof above it, and the surrounding pandan plants.
In 2017, Guia dos Quadrinhos published a book in honor of Jack Kirby (Os mundos de Jack Kirby: um tributo ao rei dos quadrinhos, ISBN 978-85-922667-0-7). Organized by Edson Diogo and comic artist Will, the book counted with 100 Brazilian artists, who draw the most important characters created by Kirby accompanied by descriptive texts.