2020 in Guatemala

The following lists events in the year 2019 in Guatemala.

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Events

January and February
  • January 1 – New Year's Day (Public holiday)[2]
  • January 14 – New President Alejandro Giammattei takes office after a five-hour delay due to protests. Outgoing president Morales is pelted with eggs.[3]
  • January 16
    • Guatemala breaks off diplomatic relations with Venezuela[4]
    • Arrest warrants on corruption charges are issued for eight politicians; former congresswoman Aracely Chavarria and former mayor Angel Ren of Chiche, Quiché, are arrested.[5]
  • January 17–19: Guatemalan Soccer League championship[6]
  • January 18
    • The United States Border Patrol tries to deport a sick Honduran woman and her two sick children, ages six and one, to Guatemala.[7]
    • Mexico stops thousands of Honduran immigrants on the border with Guatemala.[8]
  • January 20
  • January 22 – Guatemala is seen as the fifth most corrupt country in the world.[11]
  • January 24 – Calm returns to the Mexico-Guatemala border after 800 Honduran immigrants were arrested on January 23.[12]
  • January 27 – Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei offers El Salvador an opportunity to build and operate a port in Guatemalan waters in the Atlantic.[13]
  • January 30 – US Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) receives the Order of the Quetzal.[14]
  • February 1
  • February 4
    • 200,000 people in an earthquake drill held on the 44th anniversary of the 1976 Guatemala earthquake in which 22,000 people died.[17]
    • Oscar Dávila, 44, is appointed to head the investigations into government corruption.[18]
  • February 6 – In a visit to the Mexican Senate, President Alejandro Giammattei suggests the two countries construct Muros de Prosperidad ("Prosperity Walls") in the form of an investment bank in the Guatemalan departments of San Marcos, Quiché, and Huehuetenango and the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco in order to stem migration.[19]
  • February 7 – The United States offers thousands of H-2B visas to temporary agricultural workers from Guatemala.[20]
  • February 15-16 – Thousands celebrate the 59th birthday of Trompito the elephant at La Aurora zoo in Guatemala City.[21]
  • February 18 – A campaign to reunite families separated by kidnapping and/or irregular adoption during the Guatemalan Civil War of 1960-96 has begun.[22]
  • February 24 – Thelma Aldana, the former chief prosecutor known for fighting corruption, is granted asylum in the United States after being charged with embezzlement in Guatemala.[23]
  • February 28 – Patricia Marroquín de Morales, the wife of former president Jimmy Morales, is wanted for questioning for possible fraud.[24]

March and April
  • March 2 – Pedro Muadi, former president of the Congress of Guatemala, is sentenced to 30 years of prison for corruption.[25]
  • March 9 – Guatemala launches its first satellite, the Quetzal 1.[26]
  • March 15 – The government announces the first death from COVID-19, an 85-year-old man from San Pedro Sacatepéquez, San Marcos who returned from Spain on March 6.[27]
  • March 31 – A riot in a migrant detention center in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico, leaves a Guatemalan man dead and four people injured. The detainees were worried about a possible COVID-19outbreak.[28]
  • April 3 – 2,250 people have been arrested for violating the curfew imposed since mid-March while 5,705 people have been detained for leaving their homes without justification.[29]
  • April 9 to 11 – Holy Week[2]
  • April 2 – Rodolfo Galdamez, the technical deputy minister of health, and Hector Marroquin, the administrative deputy minister of health, are fired amid revelations of an alleged corruption ring inside the ministry.[30]
  • April 23
    • Gilmer Barrios, a Guatemalan immigrant to the United States, was arrested on March 23 in southern California and deported to Tijuana, Mexico, on March 23. He spent 21 days in Mexico before Guatemalan Consul General was able to get him returned to his home in San Diego.[31]
    • The United Nations Commission on Human Rights calls on Mexican and Central American governments to halt deportations during the coronavirus pandemic. 2,500 migrants are stuck in Panama because Honduras has closed its border. Mexico has dumped migrants in Guatemala, but Guatemala has not let them in. On April 23 the organization helped 41 migrants return to El Salvador from Mexico.[32]
  • April 26 – Mexico′s National Institute of Migration (INM) empties the 65 migrant detention centers it has across the country by returning 3,653 people to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in the hope of preventing outbreaks of COVID-19.[33]

May and June

July to September

Otober to December

Sports

Deaths

See also

References
  1. CIA World Factbook: Guatemala, Retrieved 20 Jan 2020
  2. Natiana Gándara; William Oliva (Nov 2, 2019). "Así quedarán los feriados en Guatemala para el 2020" [These will be the holidays in Guatemala by 2020]. Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Guatemala City.
  3. Turbulent inauguration day in Guatemala, outgoing president hit by eggs Reuters World News, 14 Jan 2020
  4. Guatemala breaks off diplomatic relations with Venezuela Al Jareeza, 16 Jan 2020
  5. Guatemalan officials arrested for corruption after leaving office by Sandra Cuffe, Al Jazeera, 16 Jan 2020
  6. These are the schedules of day 1 of the Clausura 2020 (in Spanish) By Jeniffer Gómez, Prensa Libre, 14 Jan 2020
  7. US seeks to deport Honduran mom, sick children to Guatemala By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press 18 January 2020
  8. "Mexico blocks hundreds of migrants from crossing border span". AP. Jan 18, 2020. Retrieved Feb 9, 2020.
  9. Chaos at Guatemala-Mexico border as caravan tries to advance by Jeff Abbott, Al Jazeera, 20 Jan 2020
  10. Alejandro Sinibaldi pierde otras dos fincas que habrían sido adquiridas con los sobornos de Odebrecht Prensa Libre (Guatemala City), 20 Jan 2020
  11. "México es señalado como el segundo país más corrupto del mundo, a pesar del discurso de López Obrador" [Mexico is designated as the second most corrupt country in the world, despite López Obrador's speech]. Infobae (in Spanish). Jan 22, 2020.
  12. "Normalcy returns to Guatemala-Mexico border after caravan". AP. January 24, 2020. Retrieved Feb 8, 2020.
  13. Guatemalan president offers El Salvador the chance to build a port in Guatemalan waters Reuters, 27 Jan 2020, retrieved 4 Feb 2020
  14. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez receives Guatemala's highest honor by Ronnie Marley, CBS4 Valley Central, 20 January 2020
  15. El número de guatemaltecos deportados de EEUU alcanza nuevo récord en enero (in Spanish) AFP, 1 Feb 2020
  16. Motorcyclists pilgrimage in Guatemala to worship the Black Christ (in Spanish) AFP, 1 Feb 2020
  17. Guatemala City conducts a drill to an earthquake of 7.6 degrees (in Spanish) Sputnik, 4 Feb 2020
  18. "Guatemala names former drug czar head of new anti-graft body". AP. Feb 4, 2020. Retrieved Feb 9, 2020.
  19. Michelle Mendoza (Feb 6, 2020). "Presidente de Guatemala propone a México contrarrestar la migración" [President of Guatemala proposes to Mexico to counteract migration]. CNN en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved Feb 8, 2020.
  20. Juan Carlos Paz (Feb 7, 2020). "Estados Unidos ofrece miles de visas de trabajo agrícola para guatemaltecos" [The United States offers thousands of agricultural work visas for Guatemalans]. CNN en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved Feb 9, 2020.
  21. The celebration for the 59 years of the elephant Trompita in Guatemala (in Spanish) MSN Noticias, 17 Feb 2020
  22. Campaign in Guatemala seeks to reunite stolen children during civil war with their families (in Spanish) AFP, 18 Feb 2020
  23. Ex-Guatemala prosecutor granted asylum in U.S. AP, 24 Feb 2020
  24. Guatemalan prosecutors seek to question former first lady AP, 28 Feb 2020
  25. Guatemala sentences ex congress president to 30 years AP, 2 Mar 2020
  26. Quetzal-1: Guatemala launches its first satellite into space (in Spanish) Nodal, 9 March 2020
  27. Guatemalan dies from Covid-19, the border with Mexico remains unprotected (in Spanish) El Sol de Cuernavaca, 15 Mar 2020
  28. Riot in Tabasco immigration station leaves one dead and four wounded (in Spanish) EFE/Informador, 1 April 2020
  29. Thousands of Central Americans detained for flaunting coronavirus rules Reuters, 3 Apr 2020
  30. "Guatemala health officials fired, investigated for corruption". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved Apr 30, 2020.
  31. "Guatemalan wrongly deported amid coronavirus crisis is reunited with family in U.S." news.yahoo.com. Retrieved Apr 24, 2020.
  32. News, A. B. C. "UN alarmed by migrants caught in no-man's land at borders". ABC News. Retrieved Apr 24, 2020.
  33. "Mexico returns Central Americans, empties migrant centers". AP NEWS. 26 April 2020. Retrieved Apr 27, 2020.
  34. "Maya villages in Guatemala spurn U.S. deportees as infections spike". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  35. "Estados Unidos prohibió el ingreso a un ex alto funcionario de Guatemala acusado de corrupción". infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  36. Xocomil Ultramarathon: the mountain race held at Lake Atitlan (in Spanish) Guatemala.com, Retrieved 20 Jan 2020
  37. How will the participation of Guatemala be in the Concacaf 2020 U20 Women's Championship (in Spanish) By Juan Diego, Guatemala.com, Retrieved 20 Jan 2020
  39. Ricardo Rosales Román, former URNG leader and signatory of the 1996 Peace Accords, dies (in Spanish) Prensa Libre, 2 Jan 2020, Retrieved 9 Feb 2020
  40. Fallece Erik Súñiga, exalcalde de Tecún Umán señalado por Estados Unidos de narcotráfico (in Spanish)
  41. News, A. B. C. "Mayan medicine expert killed in Guatemala". ABC News. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  42. Excanciller Haroldo Rodas falleció de Covid-19 (in Spanish)

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