* 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.

Central America then emerged as a distinct political entity upon the independence of the Federal Republic of Central America a representative democracy with its capital at Guatemala City.

Astronaut View of Guatemala City

Guatemala City ( in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción ; locally known as Guatemala or Guate ), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America.

Within the confines of modern Guatemala City is the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu.

The center of Kaminaljuyu was located a short distance from the oldest part of Guatemala City.

In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town.

Guatemala City was the scene of the declaration of independence of Central America from Spain, and became the capital of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821.

Cathedral of Guatemala City

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

Despite its location in the tropics and the many micro climates found within the country, Guatemala City ’ s elevation and the resulting moderating influence of the higher altitude enable it to enjoy a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), though depending on location, it also borders on a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ).

Guatemala City is generally mild, almost springlike, throughout the course of the year.

Guatemala City Zone 10, aerial view

Guatemala City is subdivided into 22 zones designed by the urban engineering of Raúl Aguilar Batres, each one with its own streets and avenues, making it pretty easy to find addresses in the city.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

Guatemala City, zone 4.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

For this reason along with several others, Guatemala City has experienced some growth problems such as transportation saturation, availability of safe potable water in some areas at certain times as well as increased crime.

In other words, Guatemala City faces problems common to many other rapidly expanding cities.

Guatemala City monuments, all around the city streets.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

* 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.

Belize is bordered to the north by Mexico, south and west by Guatemala, and to the east by the Caribbean Sea.

Central America is part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from northern Guatemala through central Panama.

In 1540, Spain established the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which extended from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and thus encompassed most of what is currently known as Central America, with the exception of British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Rhodnius prolixus is the principal vector in Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras and some parts of Nicaragua and El Salvador.

* Also, the auditorium of the school of economics in Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala is named after him.

It is also the capital city of the local Municipio de Guatemala, and Guatemala Department.

The city is located at, in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita in the south central part of the country Guatemala.

Guatemala City is home to many communication company headquarters, the most popular being Tigo, Claro-Telgua, and Movistar-Telefónica.

Guatemala City is subdivided into 22 zones designed by the urban engineering of Raúl Aguilar Batres, each one with its own streets and avenues, making it very easy to find addresses in the city.

Guatemala City is the spot where three ( continuous ) highways of the country start.

Guatemala City possesses several sportsgrounds and is home to many sports clubs.

His administration explained that in order for Guatemala to improve its economy the Agrarian Reform was necessary, therefore Arbenz claimed he would adopt policies for a nationalist economic development if necessary.

This has brought on difficulties for Guatemala as more people puts pressure in the nation's economic progress in a country where 70 % live in dire poverty, and political stability was weakened by an inability to have effective population growth programs.

After the signing of the final peace accord in December 1996, Guatemala was well-positioned for rapid economic growth over the next 10 years.

Despite the area ’ s economic connection with Guatemala, most businesses here do not accept the quetzal for payment.

Adopting a pro-American stance to promote economic development and recovery from depression, the United Fruit Company under Ubico became the most important company in Guatemala behind wheelbarrow manufacturing.

Escuintla is bathed by the waters of the Pacific, and produces about 43 percent of gross domestic product of Guatemala, is statistically the department, province or region in Mesoamerica with lower unemployment and extreme poverty, this contrasts with the economic and social reality of Guatemala

He studied law at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, but owing to family matters and economic circumstances he had to break off his studies and return to Costa Rica.

Yet, he soon continued the progressive elimination of the historic economic feudalism of Guatemala, which had been initiated by the predecessor Government ( 1945 – 51 ) of President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo ; which although “ favorably disposed, initially, toward the United States, was modeled, in many ways, after the Roosevelt New Deal ”; nonetheless, such relative political and economic liberalism, in the governing of a Latin American country, was worrisome to American corporate and political interests.

The CIA army for the liberation of Guatemala was part of a complex of diplomatic, economic, and propaganda campaigns.

Moreover, General Ubico especially granted favours — political and financial — to the United Fruit Company, whose investment capital bought controlling shares of the capital stock that financed the construction of the national railroads, the telegraph, and the electric utility company — the private control of the national economic infrastructure of the Republic of Guatemala.

Yet, the liberal social and economic policies, derived from the new political constitution and the “ spiritual socialism ” philosophy of President Arévalo Bermejo, provoked the ruling class gentry and the urban bourgeoisie to first distrust, and then accuse the President of Guatemala of supporting communism — a serious personal imputation and political accusation during the Cold War, of which the US Government took serious note.

For the social and economic reform of the Republic of Guatemala, President Árbenz advocated the unionization of the working class, and land reform for the landless-peasant majority of the population.

Hence, the US State Department reduced economic aid to and commercial trade with Guatemala, which harmed the Guatemalan national economy, because 85 per cent of exports were sold to the US, and 85 per cent of imports were bought from the US.

Such economic sabotage of Guatemala was secret, because economic warfare violated the Latin American non-intervention agreement to which the United States was a signatory party ; public knowledge that the US was violating the non-intervention agreement would prompt other Latin American countries to aid Guatemala in surviving the American economic warfare.

In the 1980s, after having killed the “ enemies of the state ” identified in every social, political, and economic institution of the Guatemalan nation — including the intelligentsia and the socialite classes — for five years, the military assumed virtually absolute power of government in Guatemala.

Her first job ( 1988 – 1989 ) was as a lecturer in social and economic studies at the Escuela Cristiana Verbo in Guatemala City and she has also worked as a primary school teacher.

In " A Witness to U. S .- Supported Horror ," The Washington Post noted: " As a reporter he has gathered facts in El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti and other countries where amoral regimes have murdered and suppressed their own people and been rewarded by weapons or the succor of economic aid from Washington.