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The United States announces new trade agreements with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala that lower tariffs on selected goods and expand market access for U.S. products.
2025-11-13

Five men are lynched after being accused of robbing damaged homes in the w.7 earthquake in Santa María de Jesús, Guatemala, earlier this week.
2025-07-12

The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution sponsored by Cuba, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Nicaragua, Oman, Qatar, and Palestine condemning Israeli forces' use of violence against Palestinians. 139 nations voted in favor of the resolution and nine voted against: Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States.
2020-11-5

Police in Chimaltenango, Guatemala capture Ángel Gabriel Reyes Marroquin, a leader of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, street gang. Prosecutors say he is connected to the deaths of at least 287 people. In 2014 Reyes escaped while facing charges including murder from a maximum security prison. Currently, he was also wanted for an August 17 armed attack on Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City in which seven people were shot dead.
2017-10-13

The Venerable Rev. Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City (born in Okarche, Oklahoma), is beatified at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City by Cardinal Angelo Amato, head of the sainthood Congregation in the Roman Curia and Pope Francis's delegate. Rother, who became a missionary, was assassinated in July 1981 in the poor rural village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, and is the first Catholic martyr born a citizen of the United States.
2017-09-23

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits southern Mexico and Guatemala, causing at least three deaths.
2014-07-7

Guatemalan Congresswoman Catarina Castor dies in the crash of a private plane in the northwestern Guatemalan province of Quiché, which also killed the pilot and injured the Governor Quiché Department, Heber Cabrera.
2012-12-30

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

Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt to go on trial for genocide.
2012-01-27

Emergency teams in Guatemala resume rescue efforts after mudslides bury dozens of people.
2010-09-6