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In Guatemala, the Constitutional Court aligns itself with the outgoing ruling party and denies legal recourse to Semilla, affirming that Semilla's elected members of Congress must assume office as "independents", thereby disqualifying them from running for the presidency of the Congress. The legislature of the outgoing Congress subsequently announces a delay in the investiture of the incoming legislature, as well as in the presidential investiture of Bernardo Arévalo.
2024-01-14

Sandra Torres, who lost Guatemala's presidential election, files a complaint alleging fraud in the way the votes were counted.
2023-08-25

A fight between rival gangs erupts in a jail in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, resulting in the deaths of seven people.
2021-05-20

The death toll for the Volcán de Fuego eruption in Guatemala rises to 75 people.
2018-06-5

Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala erupts, leaving at least 62 people dead, 300 others injured, and forces the closure of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City.
2018-06-3

Guatemalan Gustavo Alejos Cambara, once private secretary to former President Álvaro Colom, turns himself in to authorities on charges related to government medicine procurement corruption.
2015-12-28

Guatemala's Constitutional Court overturns a genocide conviction against former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt due to a dispute over jurisdiction.
2013-05-20

An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale kills 48 people in northern Guatemala.
2012-11-7

A Spanish court approves the extradition of former Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann to face murder charges in connection with a 2006 uprising at the Pavon prison in Guatemala where seven inmates were killed.
2011-05-31

A United Nations investigation clears Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom in the murder of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, and rules that Rosenberg plotted his own murder.
2010-01-12