* 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

These organizations combined to form the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ) in 1982.

Controlled by the anti-corruption parties — the populist Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG ) headed by Ríos Montt, and the center-right National Advancement Party ( PAN ) — the new Congress began to move away from the corruption that characterized its predecessors.

In the first round the Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG ) won 63 of 113 legislative seats, while the National Advancement Party ( PAN ) won 37.

The Military of Guatemala consists of National Army of Guatemala ( Ejercito Nacional de Guatemala, ENG ), the Guatemalan Navy ( Marina Nacional, includes Marines ) and the Guatemalan Air Force ( Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca, FAG ).

* Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity-became a political party

The study was sponsored by the Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau ( now the World Health Organization's Pan American Health Organization ) and the Guatemalan government.

* December 29 – Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war.

Six officials, among them Efraín Ríos Montt and Óscar Humberto Mejía, were formally charged on 7 July 2006 to appear in the Spanish National Court after Spain's Constitutional Court ruled in September 2005, the Spanish Constitutional Court declaration that the " principle of universal jurisdiction prevails over the existence of national interests ", following the Menchu suit brought against the officials for atrocities committed in the Guatemalan Civil War

The National Security Archive released declassified US documents relating to Guatemala's 36-year civil war which show that Washington was aware of the Guatemalan military's excesses against civilians and continued to support it throughout the bloodiest days of the conflict, which killed up to 200, 000 people.

Source: Guatemalan National Statistical Institute ( Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, ( INE ).

The formal apology was made at the National Palace by Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom on 20 October 2011 to Jacobo Árbenz Villanova, his son, a Guatemalan politician.

Note that a USPHS physician who took part in the Tuskegee program, John Charles Cutler, was in charge of the US government's syphilis experiments in Guatemala, in which Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, orphaned children, and others were deliberately infected with syphilis and other sexually-transmitted diseases from 1946-1948 in order to study the disease, in a project funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The main achievement of his presidency was to sign an agreement with the guerrilla group the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, that ended Guatemala's 36-year-long Civil War.

This was a preliminary agreement between the Guatemalan National Reconciliation Commission ( CNR ) and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ) which brought to an end more than three decades of strife in Guatemala.

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On 12 June 1970 the site was declared a National Precolumbian Monument by accord of the Guatemalan Ministry of Education ( MINEDUC ).

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

In the late 1970s he became involved with left-wing indigenous groups in Guerrero and with the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ).

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He set up the Institutional Democratic Party, a pro-military governing party modeled on the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which dominated Guatemalan politics until 1982.

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It was founded by the Guatemalan Democratic Vanguard, which had functioned as a fraction within the ruling Revolutionary Action Party for two years.

In the summer of 1950 a section of the party, led by trade union leader Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, broke away and formed a separate party, the Guatemalan Revolutionary Workers Party ( PROG ).

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Álvaro Colom Caballeros ( born 15 June 1951 ) is a Guatemalan politician who was the President of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as leader of the social-democratic National Unity of Hope ( UNE ).

Belize was contested between the Spanish Empire and the British Empire, a dispute that continued after the independence of Guatemala, who considered Belize to be a Guatemalan department.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

In Portugal, besides several varieties of wet-cured hams called fiambre ( not to be confused with the Guatemalan dish, also called fiambre ), the most important type of ham is presunto, a dry-cured ham similar to Spanish jamón and Italian prosciutto.

Listed below are the 28 categories tabulated in the 2000 United States Census: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic ; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American ; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American ; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic or Latino.

In 1999, Nobel peace prize winner Rigoberta Menchú brought a case against the Guatemalan military leadership in a Spanish Court.

42. 0 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race ( 34. 3 % Mexican, 3. 5 % Guatemalan, 0. 7 % Cuban, 0. 7 % Spanish ).

* Kayb ' il B ' alam ( r. early 16thC ), Postclassic ruler of the Mam Maya people of the northern Guatemalan highland region at the time of the Spanish conquest

With assistance from the Guatemalan historian and archivist Juan Gavarrete, Scherzer copied ( or had a copy made ) of the Spanish content from the last half of the manuscript, which he published upon his return to Europe.

The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities, particularly in the northern and central Yucatán Peninsula but also involving the Maya polities of the Guatemalan highlands region.

Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550, there were only some 1, 550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces.

* The Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages – Spanish / Mayan site, the primary authority on Mayan Languages

The Spanish Colonial fort of San Felipe, now a Guatemalan national monument, overlooks the point where the lake flows into the Río Dulce.

It is divided into 100 cents, called centavos in standard Spanish or lenes in Guatemalan slang.

The Lacandon escaped Spanish control throughout the colonial era by living in small, remote farming communities in the jungles of what is now Chiapas and the Guatemalan department of El Petén, avoiding contact with whites and Ladinos.

* Guatemalan Republican Front ( Spanish initials ), a right-wing political party in Guatemala

* Guatemalan Spanish

Category: Guatemalan people of Spanish descent