2016 in Guatemala

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The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Guatemala.

Incumbents

Acting President: Alejandro Maldonado, 3 September 2015-current
President-elect: Jimmy Morales, will take office on 14 January

Events

Police arrested Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia, brother of former President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, and 13 others on 7 January on suspicion of involvement in the murders of 558 people during the Guatemalan Civil War.^[1]
Soldiers shoot a 13 year old boy named Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano and his younger border on the Belieze-Guatemala border starting border tensions.^[2]

Public holidays

See also

Timeline of Guatemalan history

Years in Guatemala (1821–present)
19th century	1821 ...
20th century	1900 ... 1910 ... 1920 ... 1930 ... 1940 ... 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
21st century	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2016 in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean	Antigua and Barbuda Aruba¹ Bahamas Barbados Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico¹ St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago
North America	Mexico
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
South America	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Dependencies not included. ¹ Defined as a semi-autonomous territory.

2016 in North America
Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

References

↑ "Guatemala ex-military officials held over massacres". BBC News. 7 January 2016.
↑ "Belize Says Guatemala "Amassing" Troops in Border Areas". ABC News. Retrieved 2016-04-22.

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