So when the saline control was threatened, they did their best to defend it, even took up arms in 1700 against the forces of the Audiencia.
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Also in the 1530s are mentioned in the records of the Cabildo of Santiago, in Almolonga, some enslaved blacks.
Andrea Paulette Samayoa Muy (born January 17, 1990) is a Guatemalan beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Guatemala in 2013 and will represent her country at the 2013 Miss Universe contest.
Guatemalan rock | Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity | Guatemalan | Guatemalan quetzal | Guatemalan Party of Labour |
William Ashbrook Kellerman - Editor and founder of Journal of Mycology, Guatemalan explorer, photographer
; Sharwil: Predominantly Guatemalan, with some Mexican race genes, Sharwil was selected in 1951 by Sir Frank Sharpe at Redland Bay, southern Queensland, Australia.
Comunicaciones is the only Guatemalan team who has played against Real Madrid (with Gento, Ferenc Puskás, Alfredo Di Stéfano), Santos FC (with Pelé), and Boca Juniors (with Diego Armando Maradona).
An artist with the gift of an undeniable talent who, in spite of living within the moral repressions and strict conventional customs of a Guatemalan time outlined by a dictatorship (Manuel Estrada Cabrera), he was able to develop one of the most important works for the art history in the 20th century.
Édgar Hernández Umaña, Guatemalan deputy interior minister, killed with Minister Vinicio Gómez in a helicopter crash on 27 June 2008
Elvis Geovany Scott Ruiz (born 1 August 1978 in Puerto Cortés) is a Honduran football striker, who plays for Guatemalan side Juventud Retalteca.
During 1960 and 1961, Droller organized the setting up of training camps for Cuban exiles at Useppa Island, Florida, and at Retalhuleu, Guatemala by arrangement with Guatemalan president Miguel Ydigoras.
In 2006, Joseph Contreras profiled the issue of Guatemalan immigrants illegally entering Mexico for Newsweek magazine and pointed out that while Mexican president Vicente Fox demanded that the United States grant legal residency to millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants, Mexico had only granted legal status to 15,000 undocumented immigrants.
Guatemalan passports are machine readable and contain a PDF417 2D barcode with the holder's biometric information.
The obverse will contain the images of four people belonging to Guatemalan races, Ladino, Mayan representing 21 of the Amerindian ethnic groups, Garifuna, and Xinca.
A unique case in the scene is the rock band Sobrevivencia from Huehuetenango whose lyrics are sung in Mam, a Mayan language spoken in the Guatemalan northwest.
In 1999 he moved abroad for a stint at Guatemalan side USAC.
Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954.
By 1980 the Guatemalan and Salvadoran populations were the largest Central American populations in Greater Los Angeles.
On 3 April 2012, Overdick was arrested by Guatemalan police and United Nations investigators after they raided his home in San Lucas Sacatepéquez, just 20 km (12 miles) west of the capital Guatemala City.
HudBay states that it and CGN have cooperated fully with all investigations conducted by Guatemalan authorities in connection with the incidents which occurred on September 27, 2009, in El Estor.
The city currently boasts one Guatemalan top level football side with Peñarol La Mesilla (Halcones now) in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala.
Ixil Community, a region encompassing three Ixil villages in the western Guatemalan highlands
Ronald M. Schneider, an outside researcher who examined the PBHistory documents, reported that the documents did not indicate that the Republic of Guatemala was controlled by the USSR, and found substantial evidence that Guatemalan Communists acted independently, without orders or support from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Moscow.
However, Serrano's action met with strong protests by most elements of Guatemalan society, at the forefront of which was the Siglo Veintiuno newspaper under the leadership of José Rubén Zamora.
K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj, a pre-Columbian state in the Guatemalan highlands
La Democracia, Escuintla, a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Escuintla
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La Democracia, Huehuetenango, a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango
Manuel Oseas Rodas Ochoa (born 5 July 1984) is a Guatemalan cyclist set to represent Guatemala at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Two hours following the aforementioned flight, several Mexican T-6 Texans and T-28 Trojans, armed with machine guns and napalm bombs, entered Guatemalan airspace intending to strike La Aurora International Airport.
Óscar Enrique Sánchez (born 1955), former Guatemalan footballer, member of the Guatemala national football team in the 1970s and 1980s
Juan Carlos Plata (born 1971), a Guatemalan retired football player
Ramón Enrique Maradiaga Chávez (born 30 October 1954 in Amapala, Honduras) is a retired Honduran football player who currently serves as coach of Guatemalan side Municipal.
Of the various Guatemalan guerrilla groups, ORPA seemed the least violent, partly because it was led by the urbane Rodrigo Asturias, the son of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemala's Nobel Laureate in literature.
In December 2005 he was given the National Order of the Cultural Patrimony of Guatemala by the Guatemalan President, Oscar Berger, and in 2008 was named Environmentalist of the Year for Latin America by the Latin Trade Bravo Business award.
Rina Lazo, full name Rina Lazo Wasem, (b. October 23, 1923) is a Guatemalan/Mexican painter, who began her career in mural painting with Diego Rivera as his assistant.
In particular he has conducted extensive research on the K'iche' (Quiché) Mayas of the Guatemalan Highlands in the context of the infiltration and migration of Nahuatl speaking peoples into the Maya cultural areas.
During the colonial era, San Andrés Sajcabajá functioned as a staging place, between Joyabaj and Sacapulas, on the road (camino real) connecting the Guatemalan capital (then located in Tecpán) to Chiapas.
The town is home to Heredia Jaguares de Peten of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala, the top level in Guatemalan football since it moved from Morales in summer 2008.
San Pascualito derived his name from the Spanish friar, Paschal Baylon, who according to historian Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, is said to have appeared in 1650 in a vision of an indigenous Guatemalan man in San Antonio Aguacaliente (modern day Ciudad Vieja).
The El Escobal silver mine operated by Tahoe Resources near San Rafael Las Flores has been the subject of protests by the local Xinca people but protests have been suppressed by the Guatemalan government.
After his first stint with Toronto, Barclay joined Venezuelan second-tier club Deportivo Italchacao and Guatemalan club Deportivo Marquense.
The album features 11 original songs written by Shery, a song written by legendary Spanish songwriter José Luis Perales, as well as duets with Italian producer / songwriter Francesco Sondelli, Guatemalan singer Jorge "El Bardo" and another with Cuban-American vocalist Daniel René, former member of Latin Pop band Menudo / MDO.
Being roughly in the center of the Guatemalan coastline, it is used as a breakpoint for storm warnings.
Hendricks was born to a Guatemalan mother in Guatemala City where his father was employed, and was raised in Miami Springs, Florida.
He then moved to Comunicaciones where his playing time has, so far, been limited due to the presence of the Costa Rican striker Rolando Fonseca and the Guatemalan national team player Dwight Pezzarossi.
The main programs of TuVisión are Dueña y Señora (Puerto Rican telenovela), Alma Gemela (Brazilian telenovela), The Johnny Canales Show (Music) Marta Susana (Guatemalan show) and Paparazzi TV (American show).
Quetzaltenango, a Guatemalan city which is more commonly referred to as Xela.