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5 February – President Bernardo Arévalo announces an agreement allowing for Guatemala to host migrants deported from the United States. [1] 10 February – 2025 Guatemala City bus crash. A bus falls off of a bridge over the Las Vacas River in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing at least 55 people, and seriously injuring 9 others. [2]
Guatemala requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates. [1] Current plates are North American standard 6 × 12 inches (152 × 300 mm). [2] [3] In January 2021, Guatemala introduced a new license plate, similar to those of Mercosur, as well as neighboring Honduras. The typeface used is FE ...
Most states change designs approximately every three years, with each state having its own plate replacement cycle. Every year, owners of Mexican-registered vehicles pay the tenencia or revalidación de placas (car plates renewal tax). A set of Mexican plates includes one pair of plates, a windshield sticker, and in some states a plate sticker.
Pico y placa (literally Peak and Plate, Spanish for peak [hour] and [license] plate) is a driving restriction policy aimed to mitigate traffic congestion. The scheme was initially set in place in Bogotá , Colombia in 1998 by then mayor Enrique Peñalosa to help regulate traffic during rush hours . [ 1 ]
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 governor of the State of Mexico (Spanish: Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de México) wields executive power in the State of Mexico (a.k.a. Edomex).. The Governor of the State of Mexico is directly elected by the citizens, using secret ballot, to a six-year term with no possibility of reelection.
The borders of Guatemala are the international borders which it shares with four nations: [1] [2]. Mexico; Honduras; Belize; El Salvador; Over its history Guatemala has been the subject of a number of territorial disputes with its neighbours, stemming in large part from the absence of any definition of its borders prior to independence. [3]
Jacobo Árbenz, 25th President of Guatemala, was exiled following the CIA-backed 1954 coup d'état and died in Mexico City in 1971.. There has been a Guatemalan presence in Mexico since at least 1895, when the National Census counted 14,004 individuals, [3] however this dropped to 5,820 in 1900. [3]