In 2004 Demarest became the first US citizen to be awarded the Orden Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural de Guatemala, an annual award presented by the office of the President of Guatemala in recognition of contributions to the country's cultural heritage.
A state of emergency also was called for in Guatemala by President Óscar Berger where 36,559 people were reported in emergency shelters.
The President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, inaugurated the meeting which took place at the headquarters of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) and in which they discussed issues of common interest such as monitoring of protection Santiago Guides of victims and witnesses, and presented AIAMP chips, containing a summary of the procedural law of each of the Latin American countries in an automated records system and electronic format.
Eventually, the couple settled in Guatemala, but were forced to flee when a 1954 CIA-sponsored coup ousted progressive President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
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In 2000 President Alfonso Portillo admitted that the government was responsible for the massacre in the village.
Before his death, Rosenberg recorded a video message saying if he were murdered, Álvaro Colom Caballeros, President of Guatemala, Gustavo Alejos, Sandra Torres de Colom, and Gregorio Valdés would have been directly responsible.
The president of Guatemala, Álvaro Colom, called Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to express his condolences, also saying there was evidence that it was an ambush.
GFI is guided by a board of directors consisting of Lord Daniel Brennan (Chair), a member of the British House of Lords; Dr. Rafael Espada (Vice Chair), the former vice president of Guatemala; Dr. Lester Myers (Secretary/Treasurer), the president of the Center of Concern; Dr. Thomas Pogge, a professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University; and Mr. Baker, GFI's president.
In 2003, he wrote against General Efraín Ríos Montt's bid to return as President of Guatemala (Toronto Star, 9 November 2003).
In 2013 Dr. Ball provided expert testimony in Guatemala's Supreme Court in the trial of General José Efraín Ríos Montt, the de-facto president of Guatemala in 1982-1983.
It was found in 1812 year by Spanish families.This is the birthplace of Justo Rufino Barrios-President of Guatemala.His native house is declared as a National Heritage.