41. Guatemala - Government The capital of guatemala is guatemala, and the government is a constitutional democratic republic. http://www.classbrain.com/art_cr/publish/guatemala_government.shtml

Home 1st - 3rd Grade Ask ClassBrain Biographies Corporate Information Country Reports Defining Documents Freedom Files Games Mission Reports Monthy Grab Bag Monuments and Memorials Movies in the Classroom State Reports Teens ClassBrain Store Country Reports World Info World Maps A - An ... Gl - Gu : Guatemala Last Updated: Feb 7th, 2005 - 21:06:07 Guatemala - Government By CIA Factbook Jan 12, 2005, 11:48 Email this article Printer friendly page Government Guatemala Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Guatemala conventional short form: Guatemala local short form: Guatemala local long form: Republica de Guatemala Government type: constitutional democratic republic Capital: Guatemala Administrative divisions: 22 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Solola, Suchitepequez, Totonicapan, Zacapa Independence: 15 September 1821 (from Spain) National holiday: Independence Day, 15 September (1821)

42. ACT NOW To Protect Human Rights Groups In Guatemala Guatemalan government Places Members of the Association for Justice and The Guatemalan government and military who are responsible for serious human http://www.nisgua.org/articles/CALDH UA.htm

ACT NOW to Protect Human Rights Groups in Guatemala! Guatemalan Government Places Members of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) and the Center Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH) in Extreme Danger. Since June 2002, the former Civil Defense Patrols (PACs) have been reorganizing publicly and openly with the intent of obtaining payment for “services rendered to country”, which has been repeatedly promised to them by the Guatemalan President, Alfonso Portillo. There are indications that the reorganization effort is being manipulated by individuals affiliated with the Guatemalan Army (both active and retired) and by the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) political party, as part of their electoral year strategy and to guarantee the impunity of military members responsible for serious human rights violations committed during the armed conflict. While the government has postponed the payment several times, it is attempting to fault human rights organizations for the delay. For example in August and September 2002, in the Ixil region of northern Quiché, ex-PAC leaders accused several organizations of being responsible for the lack of payment.

43. Stop Land Evictions In Guatemala Many land occupations are in response to the government’s disregard of peasant claims the Guatemalan government needs to come to its senses and stop its http://www.nisgua.org/articles/Tour_24_Luisa_act.htm

Stop Land Evictions in Guatemala! Guatemala is in the midst of an agrarian crisis that includes land conflicts, labor disputes, and a rich minority wielding enormous power over an impoverished and mainly indigenous Maya majority. Land has historically been at the center of cultural and economic life in Guatemala, but State policies are depriving the poorest citizens of access to land. Organized groups of poor Maya and non-Maya peasants, in an effort to survive drought, famine, and the lack of social and other services, have taken over land that is considered by the government to be legally owned by large landowners. Many land occupations are in response to the government’s disregard of peasant claims, judicial orders, labor and salary disputes, or historical titles to land. Timeless experience has shown that the government does not listen to peasants and Maya indigenous farmers, but rather to influential landowners. During the 2003 Presidential elections, promises were made by the current President, Óscar Berger, to find solutions to the widening agrarian crisis and land conflicts in the countryside. The first of the over 40 land evictions under the Berger administration was carried out just days after the new government was inaugurated in January 2004. In late February and again in March 2004, after receiving pressure from national and international human rights groups and after having publicly re-launched the stalled Peace Accords, President Berger publicly stated that he would halt land evictions, yet land evictions continued. In early June, thousands of poor peasants and indigenous groups organized a national strike to protest the State policy of land evictions, which led to the promise of a ninety-day land evictions halt during which the government promised to make certain concrete advances.

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45. Guatemala: Portillo Fails To Combat Criminal Networks, Drug Trafficking The guatemalan government paid the family reparations on a confidential Not surprisingly, government of guatemala attempts to fight corruption have been http://www.rtfcam.org/report/volume_23/No_1/article_1.htm

March 2003 Central America and Mexico Report Home CAMR archive Index of this issue Guatemala: Portillo fails to combat criminal networks, drug trafficking Social turmoil continues in Guatemala, even six years after the signing of the Peace Accords. Public school teachers have been on strike since January 20, demanding educational reform and an increase in the national education budget from approximately $422 million to $782 million. The extra money would allow for much needed resources as well as a 100% pay increase for teachers (current salaries range from about $190 to $390 a month.) Protesting teachers have taken over public buildings and oil pipelines, and disrupted highway, border, airline and seaport traffic. They have refused the governments’ offer of a $12 monthly bonus. ( Miami Herald , Feb. 27) At the same time, campesino groups are yet again occupying land in an attempt to resolve land disputes and draw attention to their proposed agrarian platform. Guatemala’s northeast is experiencing a humanitarian crisis due to extreme hunger, and the coffee crisis continues to cripple campesino communities (see CAMR, Nov. 2002). Demands for justice from teachers and campesinos point to the lack of implementation of key peace accords provisions designed to address land distribution and increase social spending. Political analyst Carmen Ortiz explains, “The peace accords left us with a facade of democracy, but the structural problems remain the same as they were 40 years ago.” (

46. Guatemala | MADRE: An International Women's Human Rights Organization The armed forces have retained an influential presence in government and the role of until this point, received impunity from the Guatemalan government. http://www.madre.org/countries/Guatemala.html

@import "/common/madre2.css"; Home About Programs Articles ... Print Text size: A A A Where We Work Colombia Cuba Guatemala Haiti ... Get emails with the latest news and analysis from MADRE Search the MADRE site! © Emily Kunstler Guatemala Country Overview In 1996, Guatemalans witnessed the signing of peace accords that officially marked an end to the country’s 36-year civil war, the longest and bloodiest of this century's Latin American conflicts. Behind the smokescreen of "fighting communism," military groups trained and funded by the US killed 200,000 mostly Indigenous people and destroyed 440 Mayan villages. More than a million people were uprooted from their homes and over a quarter million became refugees in surrounding countries. Related Materials MADRE Programs in Guatemala MADRE's Sister Organizations in Guatemala Indigenous Women and Sustainable Development A History of Land in Guatemala: Conflict and Hope for Reform (Interhemispheric Resource Center) UN, Guatemala sign agreement to open human rights office (UN News) CAFTA Squeaker Shows Anxiety over Free Trade (Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service)

47. WorldLII - Categories - Countries - Guatemala República de guatemala Republic of guatemala. Courts Case-Law government Inter-government Organisations Lawyers Legislation Other Indexes http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2291.html

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48. WorldLII - Categories - Countries - Guatemala - Government Legal directory and search engine legislation, case-law, journals, law reform, by country and subject. http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/50937.html

Contributors: Databases Recent Additions Translate Add a Link ... Guatemala Find any of these words all of these words this phrase this document title this Boolean query World Law Help Boolean Operators Search: All WorldLII Catalog All WorldLII Databases Law on Google Embassy of Guatemala in the U.S. Search Provides information about the government of Guatemala and links Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas Search Official site of the Ministry of Finance Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala Search Official site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (In Spanish) Ministerio de Trabajo y Prevision Social Search Official site of the Ministry of Labour (In Spanish) República de Guatemala Search Official website of the Government of Guatemala Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria (SAT) Search Official site of the Superintendency of Tax Administration Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala Search Official site of the Guatemala Bank Regulatory Agency (In Spanish) Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones Search Site of the Superintendency of Telecommunications (In Spanish) WorldLII: Feedback URL: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/50937.html

49. Guatemala Peace Talks: Are Maya Rights Negotiable? The tortuous dialogue between the Guatemalan government s Commission on Peace The Guatemalan government argues that Covenant 169 is unconstitutional; http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/maya/zapeta.html

Guatemala Peace Talks: Are Maya Rights Negotiable? by Estuardo Zapeta From Abya Yala News V.8; N.4 (Winter 1994), 26, 37. The tortuous dialogue between the Guatemalan Government's Commission on Peace (COPAZ) and the National Guatemalan Revolutionary Union (URNG) has been marked by exclusion of the Maya community, a standstill on the subject of identity and Indigenous rights, sinking credibility of the parties involved, and most recently, an ultimatum from the United Nations. A day before the conclusion of 1994, the year in which the Guatemalan government had committed itself to signing a peace agreement, Guatemala's national daily paper Siglo Veintiuno carried the front page headline, "UN issues an ultimatum to the Government and URNG" (Friday, December 30, 1994). And an ultimatum was precisely what the stalled peace process seemed to need. The problems that provoked the Guatemalan civil war-widespread illiteracy, extreme poverty, malnutrition, infant mortality, unequal access to fertile soil-remain unchanged after 34 years of conflict that has killed more people, destroyed more communities, displaced more Guatemalans, and produced more widows and orphans than the very problems that started it. Conservative estimates count over 100,000 dead, 35,000 disappeared, 22,000 widows, and 150,000 displaced people and refugees; the number of orphans has never been counted. Those most affected by the social ills of a country characterized by injustice and colonialism are the same ones who have suffered 95% of the victims caused by the civil war: the Maya.

50. Guatemala Documents according to a CIA source by agents of the Guatemalan government. the State Department to Guatemalan government involvement in recent abductions, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB15/

Relevant Declassified U.S. Documents from the National Security Archive’s Guatemala Collection Document 1 October 29, 1983 GUATEMALA: Political Violence CIA, top secret intelligence report Document 2 November 15, 1983 Ambassador’s Comments on the Information Concerning the Deaths of Three AID Project Related Persons Department of State, confidential memo U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Frederic Chapin is convinced that three Guatemalan AID workers were killed by the presidential intelligence unit "Archivos" in reprisal for recent U.S. pressure over human rights in Guatemala. Document 3 November 21, 1983 Guatemala: Death Squads Resume Activity Department of State, confidential intelligence analysis Document 4 February 2, 1984 Recent Kidnappings: Signs Point to Government Security Forces U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, confidential cable Ambassador Chapin responds to two recent abductions in Guatemala City with a starkly worded cable about the responsibility of Guatemalan security forces in the disappearances and the implications for U.S. policy in the country. "I pointed out the other day in San Salvador the conflict between the desire to incorporate Guatemala into an overall U.S. strategic concept for Central America and the horrible human rights realities in Guatemala. We must come to some resolution in policy terms. Either we can overlook the record and emphasize the strategic concept or we can pursue a higher moral path. We simply cannot flip flop back and forth between the two possible positions."

51. Guatemala 1981 - Introduction IN THE REPUBLIC OF guatemala. INTRODUCTION. A. Background At precisely the same time, the government of guatemala, representing its people, http://www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Guatemala81eng/intro.htm

OEA/Ser.L/V/II.53 doc. 21 rev. 2 October Original: Spanish REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA INTRODUCTION A. Background The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has been following the human rights situation in Guatemala with real concern for several years. This concern is due to the generalized violence that country is undergoing, from which –to use the words of the IACHR itself—the “agents of the Guatemalan Government or persons who have had the approval or tolerance of that government” have not been excluded. In view of this serious situation and in consideration of the several accusations received, the IACHR decided at its thirty-first session, held in October of 1973, to ask the Government of Guatemala for permission to make an on-site observation. The government, in a cable dated November 3, 1973, answered this request by the IACHR as follows: THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT RESPECTS AND GUARANTEES HUMAN RIGHTS AND, JUST AS IT RESPECTS SOVEREIGNTY OF OTHER STATES, IT IS WATCHFUL OF ITS OWN. DUE TO THE FOREGOING, AND BECAUSE THE COUNTRY IS IN THE MIDST OF PRE-ELECTORAL DEMOCRATIC ACTIVITIES, GUATEMALA DOES NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR VISIT BY THE COMMISSION, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT COULD LEND ITSELF TO POSSIBLE DISTORTIONS BY POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE MIDST OF CAMPAIGNING FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ALREADY SCHEDULED. SINCERELY YOURS, JORGE ARENALES CATALAN, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. In a note dated April 16, 1974, the Chairman of the Commission, Dr. Justino Jiménez de Aréchaga, answered that telegram refuting the argument that the request for permission for an on-site investigation could be interpreted as harmful to the sovereignty of an OAS member state.

52. Guatemala 7778 To date, the government of guatemala has not replied to the Commission s To recommend to the guatemalan government that it investigate the events http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/81.82eng/Guatemala7778.htm

53. Guatemala - Government Publications - The University Of Iowa Libraries government Publications ClassRelated Resources guatemala. Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Memory in guatemala, 1944-1996. Research Session http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/classes/guatemala.htm

Menu: University of Iowa University of Iowa Libraries InfoHawk Gateway Government Publications ... Class-Related Resources Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Memory in Guatemala, 1944-1996 Research Session Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Declassified Records Secrecy of defense and national security information maintained through: classification of records (top secret, secret, or confidential) available to those with security clearance or a "need to know" exercising executive privilege FOIA disclosure exemption closed meetings of agency Head administrators Executive Order 12958 (Clinton) Automatic declassification of most classified info older than 25 yrs. Automatic declassification of most new docs. after 10 yrs. Deadline extended by another Ex. Order Security Classification Review The Moynihan Commission (1997) recommended statutory establishment of basic principles of classificationso far, not enacted FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552) 1966 law providing citizens' "right to know" about fed. govt. act ivies and operations Access to identifiable, existing records

54. DEA Resources, For Law Enforcement Officers, Intelligence Reports, Guatemala Cou The government of guatemala recognizes that escalating drug abuse is a serious The government of guatemala has begun to address counternarcotics issues http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/03002/03002.html

HOME CONTACT US SITE DIRECTORY [print friendly page] Drug Intelligence Brief COUNTRY BRIEF: GUATEMALA April 2003 Population 12,900,000 in mid-1996 Area 108,780 square kilometers (42,000 square miles) Capital Guatemala City Type of Government Constitutional Democratic Republic Top Guatemalan Goverment Officials President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera Vice President Francisco Reyes Lopez Minister of Government Adolfo Reyes Calderon Minister of National Defense Juan de Dios Estrada Velasquez FRG Director and Legislative President Efrain Rios Montt Historical Comment Guatemala, which was once the site of a flourishing Mayan civilization, succumbed to Spanish colonial rule in the 1500s, until gaining its independence in 1821. From the mid-19 th century until the mid-1980s, the country passed through a series of dictatorships, insurgencies, coups, and stretches of military rule. Toward the end of this period, Guatemala was engaged in a civil war between the government forces and local leftist guerillas that resulted in the loss of about 200,000 lives.

55. DEA Resources, For Law Enforcement Officers, Intelligence Reports, Guatemala - C The government of guatemala continues to be concerned about drug abuse among the In July 1997, the guatemalan government abolished its police agencies, http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/20004/20004.html

HOME CONTACT US SITE DIRECTORY [print friendly page] Drug Intelligence Brief GUATEMALA COUNTRY BRIEF March 2000 DEA Office Responsible Guatemala Country Office Population 10,928,000 (As of mid-1996) Area 108,889 square kilometers (42,042 square miles) Capital Guatemala City Type of Government Constitutional Republic Guatemalan Top Government Officials President Alfonson Portillo Vice President Francisco Reyes Minister of Government Guillermo Ruiz Wong Minister of National Defense Juan de Dios Estrada Velasquez FRG Director and Legislative President Efrain Rios Montt HISTORICAL COMMENT Frente Republicano Guatemalteco (FRG) and its presidential candidate, Alfonso Portillo. To the dismay of human rights activists, Efrain Rios Montt, who had been military ruler of Guatemala during the early 1980s when numerous human rights violations took place, was elected to head the Guatemalan Congress and retained a leadership position in the FRG. OVERVIEW Drug trafficking organizations also use containerized cargo aboard commercial maritime vessels sailing from ports on the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Depending upon the smuggling operation, selected vessels load or off-load their drugs at Guatemalan ports. These shipments normally are destined for the major ports in Mexico and U.S. ports along the Gulf of Mexico.

56. Harold Doan And Associates Ltd. - Forgotten People:Internally Displaced Persons The brutal civil war in guatemala between the national government and leftist Although the current government of guatemala has repeatedly expressed its http://www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4454

57. Wfn.org | Guatemala's Government Accused Of Cover-Up ReplyTo pcusanews list pcusanews@pcusa80.pcusa.org 27-July-1998 98236 Guatemalas government Accused of Cover-Up over Bishops Murder by Paul Jeffrey http://www.wfn.org/1998/07/msg00267.html

From the Worldwide Faith News archives www.wfn.org Guatemala's Government Accused of Cover-Up From pcusanews@pcusa80.pcusa.org Date 27 Jul 1998 13:49:03 Browse month Browse month (sort by Source) WFN Home

58. Enlaces De Guatemala See also. Regional Central America government (3) http//www.electionworld.org/guatemala.htm, » Election World Latest election results with links http://www.guate360.com/webs/index.php/Regional/Central_America/Guatemala/Govern

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59. Guatemala 1953-1954 Kh Inasmuch as the Guatemalan government was being overthrown because it was communist. the fact of its communism would have to be impressed upon the rest of http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Guatemala_KH.html

Guatemala 1953-1954 While the world watched excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blum To whom does a poor banana republic turn when a CIA army is advancing upon its territory and CIA planes are overhead bombing the country? The leaders of Guatemala tried everyone-the United Nations, the Organization of American States, other countries individually, the world press, even the United States itself, in the desperate hope that it was all a big misunderstanding, that in the end, reason would prevail. Nothing helped. Dwight Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles had decided that the legally-elected government of Jacobo Arbenz was "communist", therefore must go and go it did, in June 1954. In the midst of the American preparation to overthrow the government, the Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Guillermo Toriello, lamented that the United States was categorizing "as 'communism' every manifestation of nationalism or economic independence any desire for social progress, any intellectual curiosity, and any interest in progressive liberal reforms." The centerpiece of Arbenz's program was land reform. The need for it was clearly expressed in the all-too-familiar underdeveloped-country statistics: In a nation overwhelmingly rural, 2.2 percent of the landowners owned 70 percent of the arable land; the annual per capita income of agricultural workers was $87. Before the revolution of 1944, which overthrew the Ubico dictatorship, "farm laborers had been roped together by the Army for delivery to the low-land farms where they were kept in debt slavery by the landowners."

60. World Bank Mining Project In Guatemala Glamis Gold Gets $45 Million To Construct The Guatemalan government ratified International Labor Organization Convention Whatever paltry royalties the Guatemalan government will gain from the http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Central_America/WB_Mining_Guatemala.html

World Bank Mining Project in Guatemala Glamis Gold gets $45 million to construct a mine by Cyril Mychalejko Z magazine, June 2005 On January 11, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his government had to establish ([law and order. "We have to protect investors," said Berger. Hours later the Guatemalan military and police forces armed in riot gear opened fire on protesters murdering one person and leaving dozens injured. Berger's comments about establishing law and order in Guatemala to protect investors, and the ensuing violence and state repression, are not isolated incidents. Rather they illustrate the violent forces employed to secure the expansion of capitalist globalization. The Guatemalan government ratified International Labor Organization Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, which ensures (at least on paper) indigenous people's land rights and rights to self-determination. Articles in the Convention state that indigenous communities must be consulted and allowed to participate in decision-making processes in any matters concerning their land and lives. The World Bank has similar procedural "safeguards" to ensure only projects with "broad community support" are approved. Unfortunately, the ambiguous language coupled with lack of independent oversight and enforcement mechanisms allows transnational corporations like Glamis and global institutions like the World Bank to set their own standards.

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