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The Guatemalan civil war from 1960 to 1996 led to mass emigration, particularly Guatemalan immigration to the United States. According to the International Organization for Migration, the total number of emigrants increased from 6,700 in the 1960s to 558,776 for the period 1995–2000; by 2005, the total number had reached 1.3 million. [16]
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to meet on Monday with President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala as the U.S. grapples with an influx of migrants to its southern border, thousands from that ...
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
The White House revised the race and ethnicity category to better serve an increasingly diverse America, it says. Here's what that means. The Biden administration revises race and ethnicity ...
a Guatemalan American b Guatemalan Mexican. Guatemalans (Spanish: guatemaltecos or less commonly guatemalenses) are people connected to the country of Guatemala. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Guatemalans, several (if not all) of these connections exist.
Immigration has become a major topic in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, and one that Republicans have sought to wield as a weapon of vulnerability against Biden and his fellow Democrats.
Discrimination against Mayans in Guatemala. The Mayan community makes up 51% of the population of Guatemala. Although a few dozen cultural groups inhabited the area, they were considered one Mayan culture under the Spanish Empire. Under colonial Spanish rule, the Mayan people were forced to leave their homelands, work as slaves for the Spanish ...
With push to reconsider election results, is Guatemala courting a coup?