41. Guatemala Profile: Government Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, guatemala,Huehuetenango, Izabal is both the chief of state and head of government. http://www.nationmaster.com/country/gt/Government

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42. CNN.com - Nobel Laureate To Join Guatemalan Government - Jan. 17, 2004 CNN http://cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/17/guatemala.menchu.ap/index.html

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Nobel laureate to join Guatemalan government Menchu to oversee compliance with peace accords Story Tools YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Rigoberta Menchu Oscar Berger Guatemala Alfonso Portillo or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu said Saturday that she will join the new Guatemalan government to help oversee compliance with U.N.-brokered peace accords that ended a 36-year civil war. President Oscar Berger invited Menchu to join the government Thursday, a day after he was inaugurated. Her role has not been defined, but sources close to the new president say she will be "goodwill ambassador to the peace accords." Menchu, meeting with Berger's wife, Wendy Widmann de Berger, on Saturday, said she "would like to play this role and offer to Guatemala all the contacts of friendship that many communities have given me." The accords lay out ways to reduce the role of the military in government and promote social and economic equality. The recommendations were largely ignored by Alfonso Portillo, president from 2000 until Wednesday.

43. Atlas - Guatemala Map Overview of culture, history, economy, currency, government, people, education and languages. http://www.map.freegk.com/guatemala/guatemala.php

Introduction People History Culture ... Communications Legal system Organization Provinces Disputes Guatemala Introduction Back to Top Guatemala, republic of Central America, bounded on the west and north by Mexico, on the east by Belize and the Gulf of Honduras (an arm of the Caribbean Sea), on the south-east by Honduras and El Salvador, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. The country has a total area of 108,889 sq km (42,042 sq mi). The capital is Guatemala City. Official Name- Republic of Guatemala Capital City- Guatemala City Languages- Spanish (official), others Official Currency- Quetzal Religions- Catholic, others Population- 12,000,000 Land Area- 108,430 sq km (41,865 sq miles) Guatemala Provinces Back to Top 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 Guatemala People Back to Top Guatemala’s population, the largest of any Central American country, is 12,974,361 (2001 estimate). It is almost evenly divided between Native Americans and ladinos, but also includes small groups descended from African and European immigrants. Within the population are widely varied ways of life, differing between ladinos and indigenous people, between urban and rural residents, between the more affluent and the very poor.

44. Guatemala '54 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 4. CIA and Assassinations The guatemala 1954 Documents. by Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in guatemala. After years of answering Freedom of lists of individuals in Arbenz's government "to eliminate immediately in event of http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 4 CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents by Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA's covert "Operation PBSUCCESS," were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala. After years of answering Freedom of Information Act requests with its standard "we can neither confirm nor deny that such records exist," the CIA has finally declassified some 1400 pages of over 100,000 estimated to be in its secret archives on the Guatemalan destabilization program. (The Agency's press release stated that more records would be released before the end of the year.) An excerpt from the assassination manual appears on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times on Saturday, May 31, 1997. The small, albeit dramatic, release comes more than five years after then CIA director Robert Gates declared that the CIA would "open" its shadowy past to post-cold war public scrutiny, and only days after a member of the CIA's own historical review panel was quoted in the New York Times as calling the CIA's commitment to openness "a brilliant public relations snow job." (See Tim Weiner, "C.I.A.'s Openness Derided as a 'Snow Job'," The New York Times, May 20, 1997, p. A16) Arbenz was elected President of Guatemala in 1950 to continue a process of socio- economic reforms that the CIA disdainfully refers to in its memoranda as "an intensely nationalistic program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign inferiority complex of the 'Banana Republic.'" The first CIA effort to overthrow the Guatemalan presidenta CIA collaboration with Nicaraguan dictator Anastacio Somoza to support a disgruntled general named Carlos Castillo Armas and codenamed Operation PBFORTUNEwas authorized by President Truman in 1952. As early as February of that year, CIA Headquarters began generating memos with subject titles such as "Guatemalan Communist Personel to be disposed of during Military Operations," outlining categories of persons to be neutralized "through Executive Action"murderor through imprisonment and exile. The "A" list of those to be assassinated contained 58 namesall of which the CIA has excised from the declassified documents.

45. Guatemala Very basic information on the land, its people, history and government. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107596.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Father's Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips World Countries Guatemala Infoplease Atlas: Guatemala Republic of Guatemala National name: President: Oscar Berger (2004) Area: 42,042 sq mi (108,890 sq km) Population (2004 est.): 14,280,596 (growth rate: 2.6%); birth rate: 34.6/1000; infant mortality rate: 36.9/1000; life expectancy: 65.2; density per sq mi: 340 Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Guatemala City, 2,655,900 (metro. area), 1,128,800 (city proper) Other large cities: Mixco, 287,600; Villa Nueva, 138,900 Monetary unit: Quetzal Languages: Spanish, Indian languages Ethnicity/race: Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Mayan Literacy rate: 71% (2003 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2002 est.): $53.2 billion; per capita $3,900. Real growth rate: Inflation: Unemployment: 7.5% (1999 est.).

46. Guatemala - Government, History, Population, Geography And Maps In 1997, guatemala met its economic targets when GDP growth accelerated to4.1% and inflation fell to 9%. The government also increased tax revenues http://www.worldrover.com/vital/guatemala.html

Search the Net: History 100% Free Clip Art including world flags and 1000's more images and photos! Guatemala source: CIA World Factbook 1998 Guatemala Geography [Top of Page] Location: Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Honduras and Belize and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico Geographic coordinates: 15 30 N, 90 15 W Map references: Central America and the Caribbean Area: total: 108,890 sq km land: 108,430 sq km water: 460 sq km slightly smaller than Tennessee Land boundaries: total: 1,687 km border countries: Belize 266 km, El Salvador 203 km, Honduras 256 km, Mexico 962 km Coastline: 400 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical; hot, humid in lowlands; cooler in highlands Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau (Peten) Elevation extremes: lowest point: Pacific Ocean m highest point: Volcan Tajumulco 4,211 m Natural resources: petroleum, nickel, rare woods, fish, chicle

47. Peace Corps Brief information of geography, economy, government, and culture. http://www.peacecorps.gov/countries/guatemala/culture.cfm

48. Guatemala. The World Factbook. 2003 Includes maps; brief history; and information about geography, people, government, economy, transportation, and military. http://www.bartleby.com/151/gt.html

Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference World Factbook PREVIOUS NEXT ... MAP INDEX The World Factbook. Guatemala Background Guatemala was freed of Spanish colonial rule in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments as well as a 36-year guerrilla war. In 1996, the government signed a peace agreement formally ending the conflict, which had led to the death of more than 100,000 people and had created some 1 million refugees.

49. Guatemala - Government - Flag Description IndexMundi Home. Flag of guatemala guatemala Flag description. http://www.indexmundi.com/guatemala/flag_description.html

Guatemala - Flag description Home Guatemala Government three equal vertical bands of light blue (hoist side), white, and light blue with the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms includes a green and red quetzal (the national bird) and a scroll bearing the inscription LIBERTAD 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821 (the original date of independence from Spain) all superimposed on a pair of crossed rifles and a pair of crossed swords and framed by a wreath Source: CIA World Factbook Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2003 Home About Search

50. Guatemala - Government - Executive Branch guatemala Executive branch. Juan Francisco REYES Lopez (since 14 January 2000);note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of http://www.indexmundi.com/guatemala/executive_branch.html

Guatemala - Executive branch Home Guatemala Government chief of state: President Alfonso Antonio PORTILLO Cabrera (since 14 January 2000); Vice President Juan Francisco REYES Lopez (since 14 January 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President Alfonso Antonio PORTILLO Cabrera (since 14 January 2000); Vice President Juan Francisco REYES Lopez (since 14 January 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president elections: president elected by popular vote for a four-year term; election last held 7 November 1999; runoff held 26 December 1999 (next to be held NA November 2003) election results: Alfonso Antonio PORTILLO Cabrera elected president; percent of vote - Alfonso Antonio PORTILLO Cabrera (FRG) 68%, Oscar BERGER Perdomo (PAN) 32% Source: CIA World Factbook Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2003 Home About Search

51. GeographyIQ - World Atlas - North America - Guatemala - Government Facts And Fig guatemala government (Facts). Country name conventional long formRepublic of guatemala conventional short form guatemala local http://www.geographyiq.com/countries/gt/Guatemala_government.htm

Home World Map Rankings Currency Converter Countries from A to Z A B C D ... Guatemala (Facts) Guatemala - Government (Facts) 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) Constitution: 31 May 1985, effective 14 January 1986; note - suspended 25 May 1993 by former President SERRANO; reinstated 5 June 1993 following ouster of president; amended November 1993 Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal (active duty members of the armed forces may not vote and are restricted to their barracks on election day)

52. GeographyIQ - World Atlas - North America - Guatemala - Government And Political Click Here. World North America guatemala government and Political Conditions(Notes). guatemala government and Political Conditions (Notes). http://www.geographyiq.com/countries/gt/Guatemala_government_summary.htm

Home World Map Rankings Currency Converter Countries from A to Z A B C D ... Guatemala (Notes) Guatemala - Government and Political Conditions (Notes) GOVERNMENT Guatemala's 1985 constitution provides for a separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. The 1993 constitutional reforms included an increase in the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 13. The terms of office for president, vice president, and congressional representatives were reduced from 5 years to 4 years; for Supreme Court justices from 6 years to 5 years, and increased the terms of mayors and city councils from 21/2 to 4 years. The president and vice president are directly elected through universal suffrage and limited to one term. A vice president can run for president after 4 years out of office. Supreme Court justices are elected by the Congress from a list submitted by the bar association, law school deans, a university rector, and appellate judges. The Supreme Court and local courts handle civil and criminal cases. There also is a separate Constitutional Court. Guatemala has 22 administrative subdivisions (departments) administered by governors appointed by the president. Guatemala City and 331 other municipalities are governed by popularly elected mayors or councils.

53. Guatemala/Government - Encyclopedia Article About Guatemala/Government. Free Acc UN Truth Commission Finds US Nations Truth Commission in guatemala concluded its 18 month investigation with afinding of massive violations of human rights by the government of guatemala. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Guatemala/Government

Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Guatemala/Government Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition (See Guatemala election, 2003 A General Election was held in Guatemala on 9 November 2003. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President (and Vice-President), a new legislature (deputies for the unicameral Congreso de la República ), municipal governments, and Guatemala's deputies to the Central American Parliament. Presidential Election The ruling Republican Front of Guatemala nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera. Ríos Montt's human rights record from his time in power (1982-83) led to strong opposition from both inside and outside the country. In the first round of voting, Ríos Montt came third behind the centrist mayor of Guatemala City, Óscar Berger, and the left-wing candidate Álvaro Colom. Click the link for more information. Government Guatemala For the city, see Guatemala City. The Republic of Guatemala is a country in Central America, in the south of the continent of North America, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, Belize to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. República de Guatemala (In Detail) (Full size) Click the link for more information.

54. Guatemala/Government Procurement Materials natlaw.com. Excerpts from the Diario Oficial. Leyes. Word Search InterAmDatabase/guatemala InterAm Database Home page The National http://www.natlaw.com/guatemala/topical/gp/govproc.htm

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55. Guatemala/Government Procurement - Laws guatemala. government Procurement Leyes. 1992. Word Search guatemala/governmentProcurement InterAm Database/guatemala InterAm Database NLCIFT Home page http://www.natlaw.com/guatemala/topical/gp/stgugp.htm

The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade 440 North Bonita Avenue • Tucson, AZ 85745-2747 tel fax email natlaw@natlaw.com Guatemala Government Procurement - Leyes/Laws Ley de Contrataciones del Estado. 21-X-1992 Word Search Guatemala/Government Procurement InterAm Database/Guatemala ... NLCIFT Home page The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Research and Educational Corporation.

56. Regional, Central America, Guatemala, Government: Embassies And Consulates Related links of interest RegionalCentral AmericaGovernmentEmbassiesand Consulates. Embassies and consulates to and from guatemala. http://www.combose.com/Regional/Central_America/Guatemala/Government/Embassies_a

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57. Guatemala's Government Accused Of Cover-Up Presbyterian News Service. 98236 27 July 1998. guatemala s government Accused ofCoverUp over Bishop s Murder. by Paul Jeffrey Ecumenical News International. http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/oldnews/1998/98236.htm

Presbyterian News Service 27 July 1998 Guatemala's Government Accused of Cover-Up over Bishop's Murder by Paul Jeffrey Ecumenical News International GUATEMALA CITY– Accusing the authorities of engaging in a “cover-up,” Guatemala’s Roman Catholic leaders have broken off communication with government officials investigating the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi on April 26. “There’s a cover-up going on,” declared Ronalth Ochaeta, director of the Human Rights Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala. “If we’re going to have peace, we can’t have impunity. Those are two conflicting values.” Ochaeta made the statement on July 14 in Madrid, where he and Gerardo Flores, bishop of Cobán in central Guatemala, met Bishop Juan José Asenjo, general secretary of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. Ochaeta and Bishop Flores are briefing government and church officials across Europe about the lack of progress in the investigation of the brutal murder of Bishop Gerardi. Juan Gerardi, auxiliary bishop of Guatemala City and founder of the archdiocesan human rights office, was murdered two days after releasing a 1,400-page report on Guatemala’s 36-year civil war. The report, “Guatemala: Never Again!” blamed the country’s military for almost 90 percent of the war’s 150,000 deaths and 50,000 “disappearances.” Bishop Gerardi had frequently denounced the military for human rights violations and involvement in drug trafficking, car theft and kidnapping.

58. Guatemala Adoption - Agencies Photolisting International Adoption Agency Guatema guatemala, government. Country name conventional long form Republicof guatemala conventional short form guatemala local long form http://guatemala.adoption.com/files/government/Guatemala.php?country=Guatemala

59. Guatemala - Government Republic of guatemala conventional short form guatemala local short form guatemalalocal long form Republica de guatemala. government type constitutional http://www.exxun.com/Guatemala/d_gv.html

exxun.com america europe africa ... world Evolving xxlarge UNion - thousands windows on the world - constantly updated Home Countries Flags Maps ... Advertise with us Guatemala Flag Introduction Map Geography ... Music Translation powered by Google 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) Constitution: 31 May 1985, effective 14 January 1986; note - suspended 25 May 1993 by former President SERRANO; reinstated 5 June 1993 following ouster of president; amended November 1993 Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

60. CNN.com - Nobel Laureate To Join Guatemalan Government - Jan. 17, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu said Saturday that she will join thenew Guatemalan government to help oversee compliance with UNbrokered peace http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/17/guatemala.menchu.ap/

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Nobel laureate to join Guatemalan government Menchu to oversee compliance with peace accords Story Tools YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Rigoberta Menchu Oscar Berger Guatemala Alfonso Portillo or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu said Saturday that she will join the new Guatemalan government to help oversee compliance with U.N.-brokered peace accords that ended a 36-year civil war. President Oscar Berger invited Menchu to join the government Thursday, a day after he was inaugurated. Her role has not been defined, but sources close to the new president say she will be "goodwill ambassador to the peace accords." Menchu, meeting with Berger's wife, Wendy Widmann de Berger, on Saturday, said she "would like to play this role and offer to Guatemala all the contacts of friendship that many communities have given me." The accords lay out ways to reduce the role of the military in government and promote social and economic equality. The recommendations were largely ignored by Alfonso Portillo, president from 2000 until Wednesday.

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