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Antigua Guatemala (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtiɣwa ɣwateˈmala]), commonly known as Antigua or La Antigua, is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala. The city was the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala from 1543 through 1773, with much of its Baroque -influenced architecture and layout dating from that period.
List of journalists killed in Guatemala. Guatemala is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and media workers in Latin America. [1] [2] At least 342 journalists were murdered and 126 were disappeared or illegally arrested during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996). [2] [3] On average, that would calculate to one attack each ...
Corporación Multi Inversiones. Juan Luis Bosch Gutiérrez is a Guatemalan businessman, a grandson of Spanish-born businessman Juan Bautista Gutiérrez as well as a son of Alfonso Bosch and Isabel Gutiérrez de Bosch, the late chairwoman of the Fundación Juan Bautista Gutiérrez. [1] He is married to Elvira Molina de Bosch and has 4 children.
Luis de Lión. Luis de Lión, born José Luis de León Díaz (August 19, 1939 – June 6, 1984) was a Guatemalan writer kidnapped on May 15, 1984 by elements of Guatemalan Army intelligence, and henceforth "disappeared". His posthumous novel, El tiempo principia en Xibalbá ( Time Commences in Xibalbá) is considered an important work in modern ...
He taught K'iche' Language at the Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala. Starting in 1999 he was a Fulbright-sponsored visiting scholar at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Books and articles. Published works by Luis Sam-Colop include two poem collections, Versos sin refugio and La copa y la raíz as well as various essays and articles.
Guatemala City ( Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala ), known nationally also as Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala. [4] It is also a municipality capital of the Guatemala Department and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nestled in a mountain valley called ...
Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga (12 April 1916 – 27 November 2001) was a Guatemalan engineer and diplomat. She was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman in all of Central America to earn an engineering degree, the first woman to be accepted and to attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and the first female ambassador ...
Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol (16 September 1789 – 29 March 1855) was wealthy and influential Guatemalan merchant family and an important conservative politician. A younger son of the first marquis of Aycinena, peninsular-born Juan Fermín de Aycinena (1729-1796), Mariano was a leader of Guatemalan independence from Spain.