• of crime in Guatemala are very high. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. [citation needed] The countries with the highest crime and...
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    Janeiro, armed criminal gangs are said to be in control. Crime statistics were high in El Salvador, Guatemala and Venezuela during 1996. The police have...
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    Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize...
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  • drug-trafficking organizations are currently active inside Guatemala." Crime in Guatemala Illegal drug trade in Latin America Peter Reuter, Gordon Crawford, and...
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  • Politics of Guatemala takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, where by the President of Guatemala is both head...
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    Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala), known nationally also as Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala. It is also a municipality...
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  • prosecuting serious crime in Guatemala. On January 7, 2019, the agreement between the United Nations and Guatemala was terminated by Guatemalan president Jimmy...
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  • which is the average for international organisations," he stated. In Guatemala Crime Stoppers signed an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior (Governance)...
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    2015 Rio Bravo lynching (category Crime in Guatemala)
    burned to death in Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala, in May 2015 by a vigilante mob after being accused by some of involvement in the killing of a...
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    trafficking in Guatemala is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and slavery that occurs in the Republic of Guatemala. Sex trafficking...
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  • Trafficking in Persons Report 2023 Organised Crime Index website, Guatemala, retrieved August 31, 2024 "Central American child migrants move in 'shadows'...
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    Violence against women in Guatemala reached severe levels during the long-running Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), and the continuing impact of that...
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    Efraín Ríos Montt (category Guatemalan people convicted of war crimes)
    of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) while also leading to accusations of war crimes and genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan Army under...
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    of villagers by the government of Guatemala between 1980 and 1982. In 1978, in the face of civil war, the Guatemalan government proceeded with its economic...
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  • Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands...
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  • well as their driver, Gerardo Ramírez — were found murdered near Guatemala City, Guatemala. Four police detectives were arrested and charged with the murder;...
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    violence of the Guatemalan Civil War. Two Guatemalan heads of state, General Efraín Ríos Montt, who in 2013 was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity...
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  • Embassy Fire) refers to the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on January 31, 1980, by indigenous peasants of the Committee...
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  • Dos Erres massacre (category 1982 crimes in Guatemala)
    December 1982 took place in Dos Erres, a small village in the municipality of La Libertad, in the northern Petén department of Guatemala. The name of the village...
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    coffee, sugar, and bananas. Guatemala's GDP per capita is roughly one-third of Brazil's. The Guatemalan economy is the largest in Central America. It grew...
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    Services formally apologized to Guatemala for the ethical violations. Guatemala condemned the experiment as a crime against humanity. Multiple unsuccessful...
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    The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel...
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    the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive Guatemalan military governments that first took power following the CIA instigated 1954 Guatemalan coup...
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    officially Vamos por una Guatemala Diferente, lit. 'Let's Go for a Different Guatemala') is a conservative political party in Guatemala. The political party...
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    assistance to Latin American youth. Crime in Guatemala is one issue facing youth. Guatemala has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and lies within one...
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  • The Guatemalan Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de Guatemala) is the unified military organization comprising the Guatemalan Army, Navy, Air Force...
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    of Guatemala is a member of: Law of Guatemala Capital punishment in Guatemala Constitution of Guatemala Crime in Guatemala Human rights in Guatemala LGBT...
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    Plan de Sánchez massacre (category 1982 crimes in Guatemala)
    The Plan de Sánchez massacre took place in the Guatemalan village of Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz department, on 18 July 1982. Over 250 people (mostly...
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    people in Guatemala face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. Both male and female forms of same-sex sexual activity are legal in Guatemala...
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  • Catholic priests working in Guatemala. Edward T. and Donna Whitson Brett, The Bill Woods Story: Maryknoll Missionary in Guatemala. Maryknoll. Comisión de...
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