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José Luis Chea Urruela
José Luis Chea Urruela is a Guatemalan politician who served as Minister of Culture and Sports from January 2016 to November 2018 under the government of Jimmy Morales. Chea Urruela graduated from the Xavier Lyceum in Guatemala City in 1971. He subsequently earned a law degree from the Rafael Landívar University in 1978 and a master of international relations from Georgetown University in 1981. He was the Productivity and Work Party candidate in the 2019 Guatemalan general election General elections were held in Guatemala on 16 June 2019, to elect the president, Congress and local councils. A second round of the presidential elections was held on 11 August 2019, since no candidate won a majority in the first round. Aleja .... References Living people Government ministers of Guatemala Year of birth missing (living people) {{Guatemala-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemala
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, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras. The territory of modern Guatemala hosted the core of the Maya civilization, which extended across Mesoamerica; in the 16th century, most of this was Spanish conquest of Guatemala, conquered by the Spanish and claimed as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain. Guatemala attained independence from Spain and Mexico in 1821. From 1823 to 1841, it was part of the Federal Republic of Central America. For the latter half of the 19th century, Guatemala suffered instability and civil strife. From the early 20th century, it was ruled by a series of dictators backed by the United States. In 1944, authoritarian leader Jorge Ubico was overthrown by a pro-democratic m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Ministers Of Guatemala
The Council of Ministers of Guatemala governs the country through the executive branch of Guatemala. There is a total of 14 ministries, each headed by a Minister that is appointed by the President of Guatemala, president. Current Ministers The individuals listed below are the current Ministers and form a part of President Bernardo Arévalo's Cabinet of Bernardo Arévalo, government. List of cabinets * Cabinet of Bernardo Arévalo * Cabinet of Alejandro Giammattei * Cabinet of Alejandro Maldonado * Cabinet of Jimmy Morales * Cabinet of Otto Pérez Molina See also * Secretariats of the Presidency of Guatemala * Politics of Guatemala References {{Guatemala-stub Politics of Guatemala National cabinets, Guatemala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Morales
James Ernesto Morales Cabrera (; born 18 March 1969) is a Guatemalan politician, actor, and comedian who served as the 50th president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020. Early and personal life Morales was born in Guatemala City to José Everardo Morales Orellana and Celita Ernestina Cabrera Acevedo. He comes from a circus family and is an Evangelicalism, Evangelical Christian. His father was killed in a car accident when he was three years old, prompting him, his mother and three siblings to move to his grandparents' house, where he grew up. By the time he was ten years old, he and his brother Sammy accompanied their grandfather to sell bananas and used-clothing at the market in Santa Lucía Milpas Altas, Santa Lucia Milpas Altas. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prensa Libre (Guatemala)
''Prensa Libre'' is a Guatemalan newspaper published in Guatemala City by ''Prensa Libre, S.A.'' and distributed nationwide. It was formerly the most widely circulated newspaper in the country and as of 2007 it has the second-widest circulation. It is considered a newspaper of record. It was founded in 1951. The billionaire Mario López Estrada was a minority stakeholder. In March 2015, the newspaper's correspondent Danilo Lópéz was killed in an attack during a public event. In the aftermath of the death of Julio René Alvarado, the ''Prensa Libre'' publicly mocked Belizean officials who called on Guatemala for an apology. In October 2018, based on the information of an article published by the ''Prensa Libre'', Donald Trump claimed that ISIS Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom () as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Lyceum, Guatemala
Xavier Lyceum () is a private Catholic preschool, primary and secondary school located in the City of Guatemala. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1952 as a boys only school, and became co-educational in 2000. The school includes preschool through baccalaureate in science and in literature. History Xavier Lyceum opened in 1952 with students from kindergarten to third grade, in two small classrooms loaned by the Peyré family to supplement the prestigious private "French school" for young ladies with a school for boys. The founder, Jorge Toruño Lizarralde, entered Guatemala surreptitiously due to the liberal governments of Justo Rufino Barrios and José María Reina Barrios under which Jesuits had been expelled from the country. Toruño initially opened a male section for the French Lyceum. After the overthrow of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in 1954 by the National Liberation Movement, private religious education boomed after 1955, and Toruño renamed the school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemala City
Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Department and the most populous urban metropolitan area in Central America. The city is located in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita () in the south-central part of the country. Guatemala City is the site of the native Maya civilization, Mayan city of Kaminaljuyu in Mesoamerica, which was occupied primarily between 1500 BCE and 1200 CE. The present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Guatemala earthquake, 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks. It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy General of Guatemala; which itself was part of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America and remained und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Landívar University
Rafael Landívar University ''(Universidad Rafael Landívar)'' is a private Catholic coeducational higher education institution run by the Society of Jesus in Vista Hermosa III Guatemala. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1961. The main campus is in Zone 16 of Guatemala City and is known as Vista Hermosa III. There are satellite campuses in Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, Cobán, Zacapa, and other parts of the country. Many recent Guatemalan presidents have studied at the university, including Ramiro de León Carpio, Álvaro Arzú, and Óscar Berger. History Rafael Landívar University was inaugurated on 22 January 1962 with 138 students, in the classrooms of Liceo Guatemala, lent to the Jesuits by the Marist Brothers. In July of that year the university moved to a corrugated roof facility in Zone 10 of Guatemala City, before moving to its present location in Zone 16. Campus Quetzaltenango is in the southwest of the country, 200 km from the capital city, in a large va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Catholic institution of higher education in the United States, the oldest university in Washington, D.C., and the nation's first University charter#Federal, federally chartered university. The university has eleven Undergraduate education, undergraduate and Postgraduate education, graduate schools. Its main campus, located in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown historic neighborhood, is on a hill above the Potomac River and identifiable by Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States#Universities_classified_as_"R1:_Doctoral_Universities_–_Very_high_research_activity", "R1: Doctoral Universities – V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Productivity And Work Party
The Productivity and Work Party () was a political party in Guatemala. History The political party was registered by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in 2015 with the necessary affiliates. Its general secretary is Edgar Alfredo Rodríguez, Minister of Labor during the government of Álvaro Colom Álvaro Colom Caballeros (; 15 June 1951 – 23 January 2023) was a Guatemalan engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 47th president of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as the General-Secretary of the political party, Natio .... It was the political platform of former Finance Minister Juan Alberto Fuentes. Electoral history Presidential elections Legislative elections References External links 2015 establishments in Guatemala 2020 disestablishments in Guatemala Centrist parties in North America Defunct political parties in Guatemala Political parties established in 2015 {{Guatemala-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Guatemalan General Election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 16 June 2019, to elect the president, Congress and local councils. A second round of the presidential elections was held on 11 August 2019, since no candidate won a majority in the first round. Alejandro Giammattei won the election in the second round of voting. Incumbent President Jimmy Morales was constitutionally barred from running for a second four-year term. Electoral system The president of Guatemala is elected using the two-round system. The 160 members of Congress are elected by two methods; 130 are elected from 22 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with the remaining 31 elected from a single nationwide constituency. Seats are elected using closed list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method.Congress of the Republic IFES [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Periódico (Guatemala)
''El Periódico'' was a daily Guatemalan newspaper founded by José Rubén Zamora on November 6, 1996. History Considered one of Central America's leading independent journalists, Zamora had left his previous paper, '' Siglo Veintiuno'', earlier in the year after a disagreement with the board of directors. He then founded ''Periódico'', funded by the donations of 125 citizens who supported his stand on press freedom. One year later, it was purchased by the owners of '' Prensa Libre'', Guatemala's best-selling newspaper. In 2001, the ''Periódico'' offices were attacked by a group of fifty protesters after reporting on alleged corruption in the staff of Communications Minister Luis Rabbé. The crowd attempted to force the building's doors and set it on fire, and Zamora was burned in effigy. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, police took more than forty minutes to respond and made no arrests. The newspaper conducted a lengthy investigation into links between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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