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Guatemala's passport requires two fingerprints and a photograph and signature. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Bank on California , a program launched by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2008, encourages financial institutions to accept the Mexican CID, Guatemalan CID and other CID cards as primary identification for opening bank accounts.
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.
Noticias Guatemala [4] Diario de Centro América, the nation's newspaper of public record [5] La Hora [6] El Metropolitano, based in Mixco; published twice each month [7] Nuestro Diario, the most widely circulated newspaper in Central America [8] El Periódico [9] Publinews, the first free daily in Guatemala [10]
This article lists political parties in Guatemala. Guatemala has a multi-party system , with two or three strong political parties and other parties that are electorally successful. According to law if a party fails to get 4% of the vote or at least one deputy in Congress , the party is canceled.
Villa Nueva is a city in the Guatemala department of Guatemala. The city centre of Villa Nueva at Villa Nueva Central Park is located 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of Guatemala City. The city has a population of 618,397 (2018 census), [2] making it the second largest in Guatemala Department, after Guatemala City. It was founded on 17 April 1763 ...
Map of the provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala. The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Spanish: Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including present-day Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the ...
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) [1] is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, [2] and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. . Menchú has 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 international
Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala) is known colloquially by Guatemalans as La Capital or Guate. Its formal name is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción [ 8 ] (New Guatemala of the Assumption). The latter name is derived from the fact that it was a new Guatemala after the old one ( La Antigua ) was ruined by an earthquake.