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15. Span of crimes. January 1946 – April 1946. Country. Guatemala. Date apprehended. April 26, 1946. José María Miculax Bux (1925 – July 18, 1946), also known as the "El Monstruo de Guatemala" ("The Monster of Guatemala"), was a Guatemalan serial killer who was executed on July 18, 1946.
Santa Muerte. Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte ( Spanish: [ˈnwestɾa seˈɲoɾa ðe la ˈsanta ˈmweɾte]; Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death ), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, Folk-Catholic Saint, [1] [2] and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. [3] [4] : 296–297 A ...
Álvaro Colom. Álvaro Colom Caballeros ( Spanish: [ˈalβaɾo koˈlon]; 15 June 1951 – 23 January 2023) was a Guatemalan engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 47th president of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as the General-Secretary of the political party, National Unity of Hope (UNE).
Leyendas de Guatemala ( Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias. The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala. It reflects the author's study of anthropology and Central American indigenous civilizations, undertaken in France, at ...
The Guatemalan genocide, also referred to as the Maya genocide, [3] or the Silent Holocaust [4] (Spanish: Genocidio guatemalteco, Genocidio maya, or Holocausto silencioso ), was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive US-backed Guatemalan military governments. [5]
Yaxha. / 17.07750°N 89.40250°W / 17.07750; -89.40250. Yaxha (or Yaxhá in Spanish orthography) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin in modern-day Guatemala. As a ceremonial centre of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Yaxha was the third largest city in the region and experienced its maximum ...
Adán Medrano Rodríguez. Adán Javier Medrano Rodríguez (24 December 1969), also known as El Licenciado (The Attorney), was a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico. He joined the cartel during the 1990s, and was a trusted enforcer of former kingpin Osiel ...
Capital punishment in Peru was last used in 1979. In the same year, the death penalty was abolished for ordinary crimes. Peru is one of seven countries that has abolished capital punishment for "ordinary crimes only." [1] Peru voted in favor of the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020.