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She was the widow of President of Guatemala Efraín Ríos Montt and mother of Zury Ríos. She was the nominee for the Guatemalan Republican Front for the presidency in the election of 1995 . However, the Citizen Registry annulled her candidacy because she could not be elected to the position under the express prohibition contained in Article ...
Zury Ríos studied at schools in Guatemala and Spain, where her father was assigned as military attaché following the 1974 presidential election, a process tainted by accusations of electoral fraud in which he had been a candidate. She graduated magna cum laude in political and social science from Francisco Marroquín University. Her first job ...
Foreign minister of Guatemala from 1966 to 1969 and the president of the United Nations Twenty-Third General Assembly from 1968 to 1969. Arévalo, Juan José, first democratically elected president; Arjona, Ricardo, international singer; Asturias, Miguel Ángel, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1967)
First Lady of Guatemala is the title held by the wife of the president of Guatemala or designee. The current first lady is Lucrecia Peinado, wife of President Bernardo Arévalo, since 15 January 2024. In the First Lady's Office, located in the Presidential House, only the portraits of sixteen recognized former first ladies are exhibited.
Guatemala City, Guatemala Shot put: 16.61 m Edson Haroldo Monzón: 1 May 2004 La Jolla, United States Discus throw: 50.49 m Rául Rivera: 26 March 2004 Guatemala City, Guatemala Hammer throw: 66.50 m Diego Berrios: 11 May 2017 Guatemalan Junior/Youth Championships Guatemala City, Guatemala [16] Javelin throw: 72.21 m Luis Taracena: 30 March 2019
Bedoya was born in Guatemala in 1783. [1] [2] In 1804, she married physician (and later politician and independence leader) Pedro Molina.[1] [3] The couple moved to Granada, Nicaragua, where Molina served as a battalion doctor until 1811; they returned to Guatemala in 1814.
Antonia Matos (21 November 1902 – 22 June 1994) was a Guatemalan painter.Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in which she submitted the oil painting "La Carrera de Piraguas". [1]
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