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Incumbents

President:Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla (since 2020)
Vice-President: César Guillermo Castillo Reyes (since 2020)

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala

July 9 – Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.^[1]
July 30 – One person is wounded in an assassination attempt on President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei. The president is unharmed.^[2]

Sports

August 2021 - May 2022: 2021–22 Liga Nacional de Guatemala
July 2022 - May 2023: 2022–23 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Deaths

January 6 – Rómulo Méndez, 83, football referee^[3]
February 17 – Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Verapaz (1971–2001)^[4]
February 24 – Roberto Carpio, 91, politician, vice president (1986–1991)^[5]
March 14 – José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa, 92, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Guatemala (1967–2010)^[6]

References

^ de 2022, Por Newsroom Infobae9 de Julio (9 July 2022). "Guatemala aumenta a 66 sus municipios en alerta roja por la covid-19". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ US News, A. B. C. "1 wounded in attack on army guarding Guatemala president". ABC News. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "Fallece Rómulo Méndez el árbitro guatemalteco que estuvo en los mundiales de 1982 y 1986" (in Spanish). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "Fallece Monseñor Gerardo Flores, obispo emérito de La Verapaz". www.soy502.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "Former Vice President of Guatemala Roberto Carpio Nicolle dies at 92 – Prensa Libre - D1SoftballNews.com". 2022-02-25. Archived from the original on 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "Bishop José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-09-14.

External links

13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say (by Kate Linthicum & Jeff Abbott, January 30, 2021, Los Angeles Times

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Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Navassa Island United States Virgin Islands

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Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Middle America	Mexico
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Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
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N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which ^*the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

^†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ^~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.