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	Guatemala: El Salvador
		Guatemala has a rich and distinctive culture from the long mix of elements from Spain and the native Maya people.
		The Colonial History of Guatemala begins with the arrival of the conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524 and ends with the Guatemala's declaration of independence in 1821.
		Guatemala is governed under the constitution of 1986 as amended.
	www.lycos.com /info/guatemala--el-salvador.html (398 words)

	Guatemalan election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The ruling Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guatemala_election,_2003 (269 words)

	Guatemalan Republican Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guatemalan Republican Front (Frente Republicano Guatemalteco) is a political party in Guatemala.
		For the 2003 presidential elections, the FRG again chose Ríos Montt as its presidential candidate.
		Contradicting legal decisions and judicial wrangling regarding whether or not he would be able to stand resulted in the besiegement of Guatemala City by FRG supporters bussed in from all over the country on 24 July, a day known as Jueves Negro ("Black Thursday").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guatemalan_Republican_Front (418 words)

	History of Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire and then for a period belonged to a federation called The United Provinces of Central America, until the federation broke up in civil war in 1838–1840 (See: History of Central America).
		Guatemala's Rafael Carrera was instrumental in leading the revolt against the federal government and breaking apart the Union.
		Guatemala held presidential, legislative, and municipal elections on November 7, 1999, and a runoff presidential election on December 26.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Guatemala (3605 words)

	Guatemala, country, Central America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In the center of the range is Lake Atitlán, and south of the highlands is the Pacific coastal lowland.
		Guatemala’s current constitution was adopted in 1985 and revised in 1994.
		Guatemala was first a part of the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide and then became a nucleus of the Central American Federation.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gu/Guatemal.html (1454 words)

	Justice in Guatemala -- In These Times
		On September 11, 1990, Mack was stabbed 27 times and left to die on the sidewalk in front of her office in Guatemala City.
		In Guatemala, the military is powerful enough that dozens of witnesses, prosecutors and judges who had contact with the case have been threatened or forced to flee the country.
		In 1991, the police investigator in charge of the case was killed after turning in a report that included evidence pointing to the military’s involvement in the Mack murder; another investigator is in exile.
	www.inthesetimes.com /article/justice_in_guatemala (1104 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		GUATEMALA, republic, Central America, bounded on the W and N by Mexico, on the E by Belize and the Gulf of Honduras (an arm of the Caribbean Sea), on the SE by Honduras and El Salvador, and on the S by the Pacific Ocean.
		The longest rivers of Guatemala are the Motagua; the Usumacinta, which forms part of the boundary with Mexico; the Chixoy; and the Sarstún, forming a section of the boundary with Belize.
		The population of Guatemala (1993 est.) was 10,029,700.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/guatemala.html (4396 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Guatemal Journal
		The Pope's visit to Guatemala is seen as having huge significance for the Catholic Church, which is putting pressure on the authorities to investigate crimes against humanity committed during the civil war.
		The mountainous land of Guatemala is regularly shaken by earthquake and by political unrest.
		Guatemala City is growing, with a drift of people from the country side over the past 35 years swelling the population to just over 2 million, ten times the size of any other town in the country.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Central_America/Guatemala (4937 words)

	IDEX : Countries : Guatemala
		Guatemala is still recovering from a 36-year civil war in which the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) guerillas fought to overthrow successive U.S.-backed military regimes.
		However, rampant government corruption and the strong influence of the military-backed Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) party derailed the implementation of the Accords and deflated the once-high hopes for just and sustainable development in Guatemala.
		Guatemala's social indicators, such as infant mortality and illiteracy, are among the worst in the hemisphere, and women bear the brunt of the problems resulting from poverty.
	www.idex.org /country.php?country_id=6 (690 words)

	Guatemala's presidential elections headed for runoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- The front-runner for president already had made his victory speech, but election officials said Monday he still may have to compete in a January runoff against a fellow conservative.
		However, the leftist New Guatemala Democratic Front, led by economist Jorge Gonzalez del Valle, has made impressive gains, placing fourth with 6.38 percent in the presidential race.
		Guatemala has Central America's biggest economy, with a gross domestic product of about $12 billion, but more than 75 percent of 10.4 million people live below the poverty line.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/11/14/guatemala.html (407 words)

	Guatemala
		Guatemala suffered more than 36 years of internal conflict, which formally ended with the signing of the Peace Accords at the end of 1996.
		Guatemala is a democratic republic with separation of powers and a centralized national administration.
		However, evangelical Protestants appear to be represented in greater proportion in the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), which became the governing party when it won the presidency and a majority in Congress in the winter 1999 elections.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/guatemala.htm (3416 words)

	USAID: Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Guatemala is into its fourth year of implementing the historic peace accords signed December 29, 1996.
		The consolidation of democracy in Guatemala contributes to long-term growth and stability in the country as well as the region, which is of increasing trade and investment importance to the United States.
		Thus, Guatemala is not considered a candidate for graduation from U.S. assistance in the near term.
	www.usaid.gov /pubs/bj2001/lac/gt (1186 words)

	Guatemala (11/05)
		Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire, and then for a period belonged to a federation called the United Provinces of Central America.
		Guatemala's social development indicators, such as infant mortality and illiteracy, are among the worst in the hemisphere.
		Guatemala has a long-standing claim to a large portion of Belize; the territorial dispute caused problems with the United Kingdom and later with Belize following its 1981 independence from the U.K. In December 1989, Guatemala sponsored Belize for permanent observer status in the Organization of American States (OAS).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2045.htm (4844 words)

	CARE - Virtual Field Trip - Guatemala - Country Background, pictures of Guatemala, Antigua Guatemala
		The Mayan lineage remains strong in modern Guatemala; about 44 percent of the population are of Mayan descent and 56 percent are what the locals call ladino -- of Spanish and indigenous heritage.
		Guatemala is bordered by Mexico to the north, Belize and the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Honduras, El Salvador and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
		Guatemala didn't yield the silver and gold found in other New World locations, but the rich, fertile soil grew abundant coffee and fruit.
	www.careusa.org /vft/guatemala/country_background.asp (542 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Guatemala Election Refutes the Rigoberta Left by Michael Radu
		In the presidential race, lawyer Alfonso Portillo, representing the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), received 48 percent of the vote, well ahead of the ruling party's candidate, who obtained only 30 percent, and of the candidate of the former Marxist guerrillas, who received 12 percent.
		The party's founder, Efra¡n Rios Montt, was reelected in Guatemala City and is poised to reclaim leadership of the Congress, a position he held from 1994 to 1996.
		Rios Montt, Guatemala's most popular politician, is the real engine driving the party's—and Portillo's—success, but as a former junta leader he is constitutionally forbidden from running for president.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3361 (1146 words)

	Guatemala - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		GUATEMALA [Guatemala], officially Republic of Guatemala, republic (2005 est.
		They were defeated (1523-24) by the Spaniard Pedro de Alvarado, who became captain general of Guatemala.
		Guatemala's makers on modernization course.(apparel manufacturers are seeking to boost factory capacities, adopt more service-intensive business models and develop the textile manufacturing output)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-guatemal.html (1639 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 - Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Conference of Evangelical Churches of Guatemala, CIEDEG, charged the Public Ministry and the National Police with a careless investigation of the murder and mistreatment of several of its members and alleged that the Chimaltenango police actively tried to impede it.
		Guatemala's armed internal conflict entered its 35th year as both government and guerrilla forces continued to commit major human rights violations.
		The Constitution states that Guatemala is composed of diverse ethnic groups and obliges the Government to recognize, respect, and promote the lifestyles, customs, traditions, forms of social organization, and manner of dress of indigenous people.
	www.usemb.se /human/1995/west/guatemala.html (11687 words)

	City Mayors: Alvaro Arzu - Mayor of Guatemala City
		As Mayor of Guatemala City, he currently enjoys high ratings in opinion polls, not least because of his record as president, and is regarded as a competent administrator.
		Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; locally known as Guatemala or, informally, Guate) is the capital and largest city of Guatemala.
		Guatemala City is the economic, governmental, and cultural capital of the country.
	www.citymayors.com /mayors/guatemala_mayor.html (1357 words)

	IDEX : Countries : Guatemala (cont'd)
		Guatemala’s transition from dictatorship to electoral democracy has been a rocky road, with the psychological trauma of war and the physical strain of poverty creating obstacles to the development of a strong civil society.
		In 2003, Portillo’s military-backed Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) party ran former dictator and renowned human rights abuser Efraín Rios Montt as its candidate for the Presidency, and tried to manipulate the electoral system by using a slick campaign of vote-buying coupled with violent intimidation of the populace.
		In response, women’s organizations including IDEX partners, led a massive voter mobilization campaign to encourage women to “vote their conscience.” Voter turnout was the highest in Guatemalan history, with a 50% increase in the turnout of women voters, and Rios Montt was soundly defeated.
	www.idex.org /country2.php?country_id=6 (421 words)

	Guatemala
		There was credible evidence that police later conducted searches and fired weapons into the front of a school building to simulate a gun battle as part of their coverup.
		The decision was based in part on the fact that it was not clear that justice in the case could not be achieved in Guatemala, since a genocide case had yet to be tried by the Guatemalan court system.
		In May the National Coordinator of Widows of Guatemala, an NGO, reported what appeared to be an ordinary robbery of its daycare center in Santa Cruz del Quiche, which was followed a month later by a break-in at its Guatemala City office.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/index.cfm?docid=775 (20435 words)

	Chapter 6: Terror and Regime
		From 1960 to 1996, state repression and political killing occurred in Guatemala across all presidential regimes, military as well as civilian, elected as well as imposed.
		In less than a year and a half, security forces under Ríos Montt were responsible for 43 percent of the state killings with known date that appear in the CIIDH database committed during the entire 36-year armed conflict.
		Still another reason for Ríos Montt’s popularity may be that Guatemala’s 1982 state terror, and especially the army campaign of rural mass killings, went largely unreported, the subject of the next chapter.
	shr.aaas.org /guatemala/ciidh/qr/english/chap6.html (1440 words)

	Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Currently, a coalition of 60 human rights groups in Guatemala, working in conjunction with the office of the human rights ombudsman (another product of the peace accords), is developing the text of a law calling for restitution for victims of violence and repression.
		Moreover, the president of the ruling party -- the Republican Front of Guatemala -- is none other than former president Efrain Rios Montt, who presided over some of the worst killing, in 1981 and 1982.
		In a wider sense, Guatemala's economy is still devastated by the years of war and corruption, and badly in need of social justice.
	www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_10.html (2393 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - Former fighters show their clout.
		Although the paramilitary fighters ultimately freed the hostages, the issues raised -- about Guatemala's long civil war and the role of the once government-backed patrols -- have sent reverberations throughout the country.
		Guatemala's Republican Front (FRG) party and their presidential candidate, former dictator General Efrain Rios Montt, have largely backed the patrols in this election and are seen as far more closely connected to the re-organized groups than other political parties in the country.
		FRG Congressional candidate Rosenda Perez tells visitors to her homebase in the edge of Guatemala's vast Peten jungle that her support of the paramilitaries is based on how they represented Guatemala's poor in those days, and it's also why she is running for office on the FRG ticket.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/guatemala/doc/fighter.html (772 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
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	www.tkb.org /AdvancedSearch.jsp (330 words)

	Guatemala RELIGIONS
		Historically, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion (between 50 and 60%), with an archbishopric at Guatemala City and bishoprics at Quezaltenango, Verapaz, and Huehuetenango.
		Evangelical Protestants continued to represent a greater portion of the governments through the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) when it became the governing party in 1999 under the leadership of retired Gen. Montt.
		A 1995 Agreement on the Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples was approved to provide freedom of practice and promote respect for the forms of spirituality practiced by the Maya, Garifuna, and Xinca groups.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Guatemala-RELIGIONS.html (344 words)

	CNN.com - Guatemala's ruling party calls for constitutional overhaul - September 12, 2000
		GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- A leader of Guatemala's majority party wants to overhaul this country's constitution to allow former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to run again for the presidency.
		Mario Rivera, a leader of the majority Guatemalan Republican Front, or FRG, announced late Monday that all of his party's 63 lawmakers will support a measure calling for the reform of Guatemala's 1984 Constitution.
		Rios Montt, who oversaw the bloodiest stretch of Guatemala's 36-year civil war as the country's dictator in 1982-83, went on to found the FRG and was elected president of Guatemala's unicameral legislature in November.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/12/guatemala.politics.ap (572 words)

	City Mayors: Mayors running the world's cities
		Transport: For Guatemala City’s commuters public transport is in a state of crisis, with daily rampant crimes committed against them inside and outside the city’s antiquated buses.
		Guatemala de La Asunción, or “Guate” as the locals call it, is a city where the past and the future meet in equilibrium.
		Today Guatemala City is the largest and fastest growing city in Central America and one determined to avoid past planning mistakes.
	www.citymayors.com (4883 words)

	Dictator on a comeback in Guatemala
		Reagan praised Rios Montt, describing him as "dedicated to democracy." However, while Reagan was aiding "democracy," the people of the highlands of Guatemala were living a nightmare.
		But in 1996, Alvaro Arzu was elected president and signed the 1996 Peace Accord between the army and guerrillas, ending 36 years of civil war.
		Unfortunately, in the 1999 election, Alfonso Portillo of the Guatemala Republican Front (FRG), the right-wing party of Rios Montt, was elected president.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-2/433/433_06_RiosMontt.shtml (336 words)

	[Imc-chiapas] Guatemalan LPFM station meets Indymedia to cover National Elections Nov. 9
		Listeners should point their web audio players to: http://liveradio.indymedia.org:8003/concepcion.ogg.m3u The station will take calls from election observers and community members all over the country on Sunday, reporting what they see at voting locations and wherever there might be violence.
		Despite this, the Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) party took a majority of the Congress in 1999 and has since changed numerous laws to consolidate power.
		The local government is the only one in the department of Quezaltenango with URNG (United Revolutionary National Guatemala) leadership, the political party of the former guerrillas who fought the military governments of the past.
	archives.lists.indymedia.org /imc-chiapas/2003/001648.html (1458 words)

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