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President Bernardo Arévalo announced that the remains of Guatemalan writer and 1967 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias, would be repatriated to Guatemala. Asturias is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
2024-06-9

At the request of the Guatemalan Public Ministry, a judge orders the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to suspend the legal personality of candidate Bernardo Arévalo's Movimiento Semilla party, which went on to the second round of elections on 20 August. The legal measure would leave Arévalo out of the election.
2023-07-12

Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.
2022-07-9

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei cuts ties with the government of disputed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and closes Guatemala's embassy in Caracas.
2020-01-16

Mexico and the United States reach a deal on migration, suspending tariffs on Mexican imports into the U.S. which were to take effect on June 10. Mexico agreed to increase its enforcement efforts along their southern border with Guatemala, including deploying troops from their upcoming Mexican National Guard Guard Nacional de México.
2019-06-7

Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit demands Guatemala reverse its decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Sandra Jovel says the move is "irreversible."
2018-03-8

Carlos Castillo Medrano, the mayor of Jutiapa, Guatemala, is shot and killed by unidentified assailants.
2013-01-16

The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
2011-02-8

Mexican Drug War: The Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel threatens to launch a war in northern Guatemala where the government declared a "state of siege".
2010-12-29

A total of 172 people are killed in the floods caused by Tropical Storm Agatha that struck Guatemala.
2010-06-7