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The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...
Marta Yolanda Díaz-Durán. Marta Yolanda Díaz-Durán Alvarado (born 1968) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur, journalist, and university professor. She was sued by the vice president of Guatemala in 2009 for an opinion article which appeared in Siglo Veintiuno. The Constitutional Court, upheld her right to freedom of thought and rejected the ...
María Consuelo Porras Argueta (born August 23, 1953) is a Guatemalan attorney who has been serving as the attorney general of Guatemala since 2018. She previously served as Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2016 to 2018. President Jimmy Morales nominated Porras as the new Attorney General and Chief of the Public Prosecutor's ...
The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala ( Spanish: Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) was an international body charged with investigating and prosecuting serious crime in Guatemala. On January 7, 2019, the agreement between the United Nations and Guatemala was terminated by Guatemalan president ...
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Released: June 20, 1996. Voces Unidas is a studio album recorded by several famous Latin artists for the Olympic Games "Atlanta 1996", released on May 14, 1996 through EMI Latin. The album was a success, reaching the fifth place in the Billboard Latin 50 chart. [1]
Canal 3 is the first commercial TV station and the second overall station in Guatemala. It began its TV service in 1956. [1] Its programming broadcasts its own productions and telenovelas, among other international productions. It is owned by Grupo Chapín TV, a subsidiary of Remigio Ángel González 's Albavisión group.
Guatemala has 14 ecoregions ranging from mangrove forests to both ocean littorals with 5 different ecosystems. Guatemala has 252 listed wetlands, including five lakes, 61 lagoons, 100 rivers, and four swamps. Tikal National Park was the first mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site. Guatemala is a country of distinct fauna. It has some 1246 known species.