The following lists events in the year 2023 in

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Incumbents

* President: Alejandro Giammattei * Vice-President: Guillermo Castillo Reyes (until January 20);

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onwards

Events

* Ongoing

COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala The COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Guatemala in March 2020. Backgrou ...

* 4 MayVolcán de Fuego eruption

June

* 25 June **

2023 Guatemalan general election General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats of the Congress, all 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all 340 municipalities in the coun ...

** 2023 Guatemala City mayoral election

September

* 3 SeptemberGuatemala's Supreme Electoral Tribunal temporarily reinstates

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's Semilla

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, which had been suspended pending an investigation into alleged registration irregularities. * 12 September The office of the Guatemala Attorney General carries out raids in the offices of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and opens electoral boxes that contain the electoral ballots. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal condemns the decision.

October

* 9 October Dozens of road blockades are reported throughout the country, mainly in Guatemala City, organized by community organizations demanding Attorney General María Consuelo Porras' resignation.

December

* 8 December The Attorney General of Guatemala, Attorney General's Office says that the results of the 2023 general election are "null and void" and should be "annulled". The Organization of American States condemned the actions and called them an "attempted coup d'état". * 15 December A ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights finds

to have violated indigenous rights by allowing a large nickel mine to operate on tribal land.

Sports

* July 2022 - May 2023: 2022–23 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Deaths

* 23 January - Álvaro Colom, 71, engineer and politician, President of Guatemala, president (2008–2012). * 5 April - Hugo Rodríguez Chinchilla, 47, politician, Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, deputy (since 2020). * 26 August - Milton Francisco Guerra Calderón, 48, farmer and politician, deputy (2012–2020).

References

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