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While Guatemala observed five months of daylight saving time in 2006, according to the Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM), nationwide energy consumption was reduced by 36 million kilowatt-hours, equivalent to monetary savings of Q64 million. Guatemala intended to observe daylight saving time the following year, but the plan never came through.
Guatemala currently does not observe daylight saving time, and uses Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00) all year-round. Daylight saving time (Central Daylight Time (CDT), UTC−05:00) has been observed in a few previous years, the last occasion being in 2006. CDT was observed for the following periods: [1]
It is located 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi; 3.5 nmi) [1] south of Guatemala City's center and 25 km (16 mi; 13 nmi) from Antigua Guatemala. It is administered by the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics. La Aurora International Airport is the primary airport of Guatemala. The airport went through a massive modernization and expansion.
Prensa Libre, the second-most widely circulated newspaper in Guatemala [3] Al Día; 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]
The channel began operations on March 5, 2006, under the television company Latitud Televisión, operating channels 31 and 35 UHF in Guatemala City, they were owned by the Botrán family (owners of the liquor company Industrias Licoreras de Guatemala), in March 2008 the 70% of the company was acquired by Mexico's TV Azteca to operate in Guatemala under the Azteca 31 and Azteca 35 channels.
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.
Assumption of Mary into Heaven (only in Guatemala City) September 15 Independence Day: Día de la Independencia: Celebrates the Act of Independence of Central America in 1821. October 20 Revolution Day: Día de la Revolución: Celebrates the "Ten Years of Spring," the democratic period that began with the uprising against Jorge Ubico in 1944 ...
[a] Guatemala: Méndez Montenegro, Julio César: President from 1966 to 1970 Guatemala: Rivera Paz, Mariano: Governor of the State of Guatemala from 1838 to 1844 [e] Guatemala: Palma, Baudilio: Acting president in 1930 Guatemala: Salazar Castro, Carlos (1800 - 1867) Acting head of State (1834, 1839) El Salvador [e] Guatemala; Serrano Elías, Jorge