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Guatemala, [a] officially the Republic of Guatemala, [b] 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.
Guatemala: Central America: Upper middle income 48.3 2014 48.28 2014 Guyana: South America: High income 45.0 1998 35.00 2006 Hong Kong: Eastern Asia: High income 42.00 2016 Honduras: Central America: Lower middle income 48.2 2019 48.10 2021 Croatia: Southern Europe: High income 28.9 2021 28.92 2022 Haiti: Caribbean: Lower middle income
Y esta pobre viejecita cada año, hasta su fin, tuvo un año más de vieja y uno menos que vivir. Y al mirarse en el espejo la espantaba siempre allí otra vieja de antiparras, papalina y peluquín. Y esta pobre viejecita no tenía qué vestir sino trajes de mil cortes y de telas mil y mil. Y a no ser por sus zapatos, chanclas, botas y escarpín,
Departments of Guatemala; Flag Coat of Arms Department Map # ISO 3166-2:GT [6] Capital Area (km 2) Population (2018 Census) [7] Municipalities Location Alta Verapaz: 1 GT-16 Cobán: 8,686 1,215,038 17 Baja Verapaz: 2 GT-15 Salamá: 3,124 299,476 8 Chimaltenango: 3 GT-04 Chimaltenango: 1,979 615,776 16 Chiquimula: 4 GT-20 Chiquimula: 2,376 ...
The Constitutional Court (Corte de Constitucionalidad) is Guatemala's constitutional court and only interprets the law in matters that affect the country's constitution. It is composed of five judges, elected for concurrent five-year terms each with a supplement, each serving one year as president of the Court: one is elected by Congress, one elected by the Supreme Court of Justice, one is ...
The mandate of the UN anti-corruption commission ends on September 3, 2019. [11] In anticipation, President Morales deployed the armed forces near the headquarters of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala. [12] Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel said on 7 January 2019 that the UN body "had 24 hours to leave the ...
While Guatemala has made efforts to move beyond its past, the country still remains extremely divided. By 1984, the large-scale massacres were generally over, the army had set up new bases throughout the Mayan heartlands and had accrued unprecedented economic power through the seizure of vast tracts of productive land and a number of key state ...
Spanish is the official language of Guatemala, and is spoken by 93% of the population. [1] Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language.. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.