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A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.
Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG")– a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala" (for example, by the BBC [12] and CNN [13]), or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters [14]) – was a Guatemalan political party; encuentro may also translate as "gathering", "meeting", or "union". Its logo is a red circle with four green dots on ...
Spanish, formerly Xincan languages. The Xinka, or Xinca, are a non-Mayan indigenous people of Mesoamerica, with communities in the southern portion of Guatemala, near its border with El Salvador, and in the mountainous region to the north. Their languages (the Xincan languages) are not known to be related to any other language family, [2 ...
Arévalo was born on 7 October 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the son of Juan José Arévalo, the former President of Guatemala between 1945 and 1951, and his second wife, Margarita de León. At the time of Arévalo's birth, his father was living in political exile in South America following the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. [7]
Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (10 September 1904 [1] – 8 October 1990) was a Guatemalan statesman and professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945. He was elected following a popular uprising against the United States-backed dictator Jorge Ubico that began the Guatemalan Revolution.
Website. movimientosemilla.gt. Politics of Guatemala. Political parties. Elections. Movimiento Semilla ([seˈmi.ʝa], lit. ' Seed Movement') is a centre-left, progressive, social-democratic political party in Guatemala. [12] On 14 January 2024, it became Guatemala's governing party following the inauguration of President Bernardo Arévalo. [13]
Argentina [1][3] Battles and wars. Guatemalan Civil War. The Guerrilla Army Of The Poor (Spanish: Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, EGP) was a Guatemalan leftist guerrilla movement, which commanded significant support among indigenous Maya people during the Guatemalan Civil War.
Guatemala is home to 6.5 million (43.75%) people of Indigenous heritage belonging to the 22 Mayan people (Achi ...