100 Notable alumni of
University of San Carlos of Guatemala
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The University of San Carlos of Guatemala is 618th in the world, 18th in Latin America, and 1st in Guatemala by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales
- Occupations
- writerpoetpoet lawyerdiplomatjournalist
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Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
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Jimmy Morales
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- television actorfilm directorpoliticianfilm producercomedian
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Jimmy Ernesto Morales Cabrera is a Guatemalan politician, actor, and comedian who served as the 50th president of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020.
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Alejandro Giammattei
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- politician
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Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla is a Guatemalan politician who served as the 51st president of Guatemala from 2020 to 2024.
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José Cecilio del Valle
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- writerlawyerjuristjournalistpolitician
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José Cecilio Díaz del Valle was a philosopher, politician, lawyer, and journalist and one of the most important figures in Central America during the transition from colonial government to independence, displaying a wide-ranging expertise in public administration management.
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Justo Rufino Barrios
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- politicianlawyer
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Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón was a Guatemalan politician and military general who served as President of Guatemala from 1873 to his death in 1885. He was known for his liberal reforms and his attempts to reunite Central America.
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Álvaro Colom
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Álvaro Colom Caballeros was a Guatemalan engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the President of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as the General-Secretary of the political party, National Unity of Hope (UNE).
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Manuel Estrada Cabrera
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Manuel José Estrada Cabrera was the President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920. A lawyer with no military background, he was a dictator who modernised the country's industry and transportation infrastructure, but only via granting concessions to the American-owned United Fruit Company, whose influence on the government was deeply unpopular among the population. Estrada Cabrera used increasingly brutal methods to assert his authority, including armed strike-breaking, and he effectively controlled the general elections. He retained power for 22 years through controlled elections in 1904, 1910, and 1916, and was eventually removed from office when the national assembly declared him mentally incompetent, and he was jailed for corruption.
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Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
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Alejandro Baltazar Maldonado Aguirre is a Guatemalan statesman who served as the acting President of Guatemala following the Congress' acceptance of the resignation of President Otto Pérez Molina on September 3, 2015.
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Dionisio de Herrera
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- politicianlawyer
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José Dionisio de la Trinidad de Herrera y Díaz del Valle was a Liberal Honduran politician, head of state of Honduras from 1824 to 1827 and head of state of Nicaragua from 1830 to 1833. During his terms, Honduras and Nicaragua were states within the Federal Republic of Central America. Herrera was an uncle of the Liberal Central American general Francisco Morazán.
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José Milla y Vidaurre
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- novelistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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José Milla y Vidaurre was a notable Guatemalan writer of the 19th century. He was also known by the name Pepe Milla and the pseudonym Salomé Jil. Son of a governor of the state of Honduras in the Federal Republic of Central America, José Justo de la Milla y Pineda and Mrs. Mercedes Vidaurre Molina, the daughter of a wealthy Guatemalan family. He was married to his cousin, Mercedes Vidaurre and had 7 daughters and sons.
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Manuel José Arce
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- politician
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Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga was a decorated Salvadoran General and president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1825 to 1829, followed by Francisco Morazán.
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Jorge Serrano Elías
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- politician
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Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías is a Guatemalan industrial engineer and politician who served as president of Guatemala from January 14, 1991 to June 1, 1993.
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José Matías Delgado
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- politician
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José Matías Delgado y de León was a Salvadoran priest and doctor known as El Padre de la Patria Salvadoreña (The Father of the Salvadoran Fatherland).
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Mariano Gálvez
- Enrolled in the University of San Carlos of Guatemala
- In 1819 graduated with doctorate
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- statespersonlawyerpoliticianphilosopherjournalist
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José Felipe Mariano Gálvez was a jurist and Liberal politician in Guatemala. For two consecutive terms from August 28, 1831, to March 3, 1838, he was chief of state of the State of Guatemala, within the Federal Republic of Central America. In 1836, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Vinicio Cerezo
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- politicianlawyer
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Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo is a Guatemalan politician. He served as President of Guatemala from 1986 to 1991. He also served as the Secretary General of the Central American Integration System (SICA) from 2017 to 2021.
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Ramón Ros
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianpoetjournalist
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Ramón Rosa Soto was a lawyer, journalist, politician and liberal writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was the ideologue of educational changes of Liberal Reform in Guatemala and then in Honduras. He served as Principal Minister during the rule of his cousin, Dr. Marco Aurelio Soto and was associated with Soto's mining investments.
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Marco Aurelio Soto
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Marco Aurelio Soto Martínez was President of Honduras from 1876 to 1883. He was known as a liberal. He was a reforming president and had a great impact on the Honduras of his time, including the establishment of the Biblioteca Nacional de Honduras in 1880.
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Roxana Baldetti
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- convictjournalistpolitician
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Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elías is a Guatemalan politician who served as the first female Vice President of Guatemala from 2012 until her resignation amid a corruption scandal in 2015. In 2018, she was sentenced to 15½ years in prison for illicit association, fraud, and influence peddling, and to 16 years in 2022 for illicit association and customs fraud for her part in the La Linea corruption ring.
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Roberto Suazo Córdova
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- politiciansurgeon
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Roberto Suazo Córdova was the President of Honduras from 1982 until 1986. Suazo Córdova died on 22 December 2018 following an ulcer surgical operation at the age of 91.
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Julio César Méndez Montenegro
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- politicianlawyer
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Julio César Méndez Montenegro was a Guatemalan academic who served as president of Guatemala from July 1966 to July 1970. Mendez was elected on a platform promising democratic reforms and the curtailment of military power. The only civilian to occupy Guatemala's presidency during the long period of military rule between 1954 and 1986. Mendez had assumed the presidency under a pact in July 1966 that gave the armed forces carte blanche with respect to internal security matters and an effective veto over governmental policy. Nevertheless, his election and swearing in was considered a major turning point for the long military-led Guatemala. He was the first cousin of César Montenegro Paniagua whose kidnapping, torture and murder during the Julio César Méndez presidency is rumored to have been undertaken with presidential sanction.
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Enrique Efraín Recinos Valenzuela
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- painterarchitectbodybuilder
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Efraín Enrique Recinos Valenzuela was a Guatemalan contemporary architect, muralist, urbanist, painter and sculptor. Recinos' works adorn the facades and interiors of many of Guatemala's landmark buildings, including the National Library of Guatemala. However, he is best known as the architect of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias, which serves as the county's national theater and largest cultural complex, opened in 1978. Recinos designed the large, white structure set on a hill to resemble a jaguar, using inspiration from more traditional Mayan motifs. The government considers the theater as a National Heritage site.
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José María Orellana
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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José María Orellana Pinto was a Guatemalan political and military leader. He was chief of staff of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera and President of Guatemala between 1921 and 1926, after overthrowing Conservative Unionist President Carlos Herrera. During his rule the Quetzal was established as the currency of Guatemala. Orellana Pinto died under suspicious circumstances in 1926 at the age of fifty-four. He was buried in the Guatemalan capital with state honors.
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Rafael Landívar
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- monkpoet
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Rafael Landívar, S.J. was a Guatemalan poet and Jesuit priest. He is considered among the important authors of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century.
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Thelma Aldana
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Thelma Esperanza Aldana Hernández is a Guatemalan jurist and politician who served as President of the Supreme Court from 2011 to 2012 and as attorney general from 2014 to 2018.
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Ramiro de León Carpio
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- politicianlawyer
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Ramiro de León Carpio was a Guatemalan politician who served as the president of Guatemala from June 1993 until January 1996. He served as Guatemala's Attorney for Human Rights from August 1987 to June 1993.
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Manuel Baldizón
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
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Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez is a Guatemalan politician, lawyer, and hotel entrepreneur. He was the leader of the "Libertad Democrática Renovada" (LIDER) Renewed Democratic Liberty party and was a candidate in the 2015 presidential election placing third and losing to Jimmy Morales. He was also a candidate in the 2011 presidential election, placing second and losing to Otto Pérez Molina in a run-off vote. On January 20, 2018, he was captured in the United States, when he was accused of accepting bribes from Odebrecht.
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Juan Lindo y Zelaya
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- politicianlawyer
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Juan Nepomuceno Fernández Lindo y Zelaya was a Conservative Central American politician, provisional president of the Republic of El Salvador from 1841 to 1842 and of the Republic of Honduras from 1847 to 1852.
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Mario López Estrada
- Enrolled in the University of San Carlos of Guatemala
- Graduated with civil engineer
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- civil engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Mario López Estrada was a Guatemalan telecommunications businessman and billionaire. He was the president and main shareholder of Tigo Guatemala.
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Manuel Galich
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- dramaturgepoliticianplaywright
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Manuel Francisco Galich López was a Guatemalan playwright.
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Pedro Molina Mazariegos
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- statespersondiplomatpolitician
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Pedro José Antonio Molina Mazariegos was a Central American politician, considered one of the founders of liberalism in Guatemala.
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César Guillermo Castillo Reyes
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- lawyer
- Biography
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César Guillermo Castillo Reyes is a Guatemalan attorney and politician who served as the 17th vice president of Guatemala from 2020 to 2024.
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Jayro Bustamante
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Jayro Bustamante is a Guatemalan film director and screenwriter. He directed the 2015 film Ixcanul, which was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. He was named on the jury for the Best First Feature Award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Ana Sofía Gómez Porras
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- artistic gymnast
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Ana Sofía Gómez Porras is a Guatemalan artistic gymnast.
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Jafeth Cabrera Franco
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- diplomatpoliticianphysician
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Ernesto Jafeth Cabrera Franco is a Guatemalan politician who served as Vice President of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020 under the government of Jimmy Morales.
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Mariano Rivera Paz
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- politician
- Biography
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Mariano Rivera Paz was Head of State of Guatemala and its first president.
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Matilde Elena López
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- essayistwriterpoet
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Matilde Elena López was a Salvadoran poet, essayist, playwright and literary critic. Her most important works include “Masferrer, alto pensador de Centro América”, “Cartas a Grosa” and “La balada de Anastasio Aquino”.
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María Consuelo Porras
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- lawyer
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María Consuelo Porras Argueta is a Guatemalan attorney who has been serving as the Attorney General of Guatemala since 2018. She previously served as Deputy Magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 2016 to 2018. President Jimmy Morales nominated Porras as the new Attorney General and Chief of the Public Prosecutor's Office in May 2018, succeeding Thelma Aldana.
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Rafael Espada
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- politiciansurgeon
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Dr. José Rafael Espada is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and politician who served as Vice President of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012 under President Alvaro Colom. Espada unsuccessfully ran for president during the 2023 general election.
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Argentina Díaz Lozano
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- journalisthuman rights activistsuffragettediplomat
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Argentina Díaz Lozano was the pseudonym for the Honduran writer Argentina Bueso Mejía. She was a journalist and novelist, who wrote in the romantic style with feminist themes. She won numerous awards for her books, including the Golden Quetzel from Guatemala, the Honduran National Literature Prize Ramón Rosa" and the "Order Cruzeiro do Sud" from Brazil. She was admitted to the Academia Hondureña de la Lengua and is the only Central American woman whose work has officially contended for a Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Adrián Recinos
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- historianpoliticianlinguistdiplomat
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Adrián Recinos was a Guatemalan historian, essayist, Mayanist scholar and translator, and diplomat. Recinos was a student of national history, especially the Maya civilization and the ancient history of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel people.
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Lucrecia Hernández Mack
- Enrolled in the University of San Carlos of Guatemala
- Graduated with surgeon
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Lucrecia María Hernández Mack was a Guatemalan physician and politician who served a deputy of the Congress from 2020 until her death in 2023. In July 2016, President Jimmy Morales nominated Hernández Mack as the minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, becoming the first woman to serve in that position. In 2017, she resigned from her position in protest over President Morales' order to expel United Nations anti-corruption investigator Iván Velásquez Gómez. A member of Movimiento Semilla, she served in the Congress after winning in the 2019 General Election.
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Margarita Carrera
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- journalistwriterpoet
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Margarita Carrera Molina was a Guatemalan philosopher, professor and writer. She was a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and the 1996 laureate of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature.
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Próspero Fernández Oreamuno
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- politician
- Biography
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Juan Primitivo Próspero Fernández Oreamuno was President of Costa Rica from 1882 to 1885.
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Antonio José de Irisarri
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- diplomatjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Antonio José de Irisarri Alonso, was a Guatemalan statesman, journalist, and politician who served as Interim Supreme Director of Chile in 1814. He is considered one of the fathers of Chilean journalism together with Fr. Camilo Henríquez.
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Francisco Dueñas Díaz
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- politician
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Francisco Dueñas Díaz was a Salvadoran politician and member of the Conservative Party who served as President of El Salvador on four different occasions: 3 May 1851 to 30 January 1852, 1 February 1852 to 1 February 1854, 1 to 12 February 1856 in acting capacity, and 26 October 1863 to 15 April 1871.
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Jesús Jiménez Zamora
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- politician
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Jesús María Ciriaco Jiménez Zamora was President of Costa Rica on two occasions: 1863 to 1866, and 1868 to 1870.
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Miguel Paz Barahona
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- politician
- Biography
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Miguel Paz Barahona was President of Honduras from 1 February 1925 to 1 February 1929. Barahona was a member of the National Party of Honduras (PNH).
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José Felipe Flores
- Years
- 1751-1824 (aged 73)
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- anatomistuniversity teacherphysician
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José Felipe Flores was a prestigious physician and Medicine teaching pioneer in Central America. He graduated from the Royal and Pontifical University of San Carlos Borromeo, and in 1781 became a faculty member of both the University and San Juan de Dios Hospital.
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Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol
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- politiciandiplomat
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Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol was a conservative politician and member of the Aycinena clan that worked closely with the conservative regime of Rafael Carrera. He was interim president of Guatemala in 1865 after the death of president for life, general Rafael Carrera.
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Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol
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- statesperson
- Biography
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Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol was wealthy and influential Guatemalan merchant family and an important conservative politician. A younger son of the first marquis of Aycinena, peninsular-born Juan Fermín de Aycinena (1729-1796), Mariano was a leader of Guatemalan independence from Spain. He served governor of the State of Guatemala in the Central American Federation from 1 March 1827 to 12 April 1829 and patriarch of the Aycinena family. The family had the commercial monopoly in Central American during the Spanish colonial era later year thanks to the Consulado de Comercio. He was one of the signatories of Central American independence and lobbied heavily for the annexation of Central America to the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide. This arrangement would keep the family's economic position and privileges following independence. After being expelled along with the Aycinena family in 1829 after being defeated by Francisco Morazán, went into exile in the United States and then to Mexico. He came back to Guatemala after the conservatives had allied with general Rafael Carrera; but then he retired from public life and hand the Aycinena family leadership to Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol.
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Vicente Mejía Colindres
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- politician
- Biography
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Vicente Mejía Colindres was President of Honduras between 16 September and 5 October 1919; and again between 1 February 1929 and 16 November 1932.
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David Joaquín Guzmán
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- anthropologistwritergeologistarchaeologistpolitician
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David Joaquín Guzmán was a Salvadoran polymath, making contributions in science, and archeology, and as a museum curator and educator. He essentially founded and was first director of what is now known as the Museo Nacional de Antropología David J Guzmán, named in his honor. He also founded an anthropology museum in Nicaragua. He served in several positions in the government including being elected as representative to the Assembly.
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Raúl Aguilar Batres
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- civil engineer
- Biography
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Raúl Aguilar Batres was a Guatemalan civil engineer. He is the inventor of the street naming and house numbering conventions that are used in Guatemala City and other cities in Guatemala.
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Luis Bográn
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- politicianlawyer
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Luis Bográn Barahona was a president of Honduras, who served two consecutive terms from 30 November 1883 to 30 November 1891. He was born in the northern Honduran department of Santa Bárbara on 3 June 1849 to Saturnino Bográn Bonilla and Gertrudis Barahona Leiva. He was a member of a prominent and wealthy political family. The last name "Bográn" derives from the French surname "Beaugrand". Luis Bográn was the brother of future president Francisco Bográn (5 October 1919 – 1 February 1920) and first cousin of future president Miguel Paz Barahona (1 February 1925 – 1 February 1929).
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José Gustavo Guerrero
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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José Gustavo Guerrero was a Salvadoran diplomat and jurist. He was President of the Assembly of the League of Nations from 1929 to 1930. He served as the last president of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1937 to 1946; he was also the first president of the International Court of Justice ("World Court") from 1946 to 1949, and remained on the Court as a regular judge until his death in 1958.
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Baudilio Palma
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- politician
- Biography
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Baudilio Palma was acting President of Guatemala, in place of general Lázaro Chacón González, from 13 to 17 December 1930, when he was deposed and probably assassinated after coup d'état led by general Manuel María Orellana Contreras, who appointed himself as president. Several authors argue that he might not have been killed, but went into exile to El Salvador, where he would have died on 19 June 1944.
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José María Reyna Andrade
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- notarypoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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José María Reina Andrade was the acting President of Guatemala from 2 January 1931 to 14 February 1931.
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Ismael Cerna
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- poet
- Biography
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Ismael Cerna was a Guatemalan poet.
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Nineth Montenegro
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- human rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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Nineth Varenca Montenegro Cottom is a Guatemalan human rights activist and a victim of state terrorism. She was the first person to face civil resistance on a national level as a result of protesting in the streets about the whereabouts of her husband, Edgar Fernando García, who had been captured illegally by the government and has been a missing person since February 18, 1984. The disappearance of her husband still remains an unsolved case, as he is considered a disappeared person.
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Carlos Raúl Morales Moscoso
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Carlos Raúl Morales Moscoso is a Guatemalan diplomat and former government official. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala from September 2014 to August 2017.
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Carlos Salazar Castro
- Occupations
- statesperson
- Biography
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Carlos Salazar Castro was a Central American military officer and Liberal politician. Briefly in 1834 he was provisional president of El Salvador, and in 1839 he was provisional president of Guatemala.
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Santiago José Celis
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Santiago José Celis was a Salvadoran physician who participated in the 1811 Independence Movement.
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Oscar Julio Vian Morales
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Óscar Julio Vian Morales S.D.B. was archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 2 October 2010 until his death from cancer. He had previously served as archbishop of Los Altos in Guatemala. He was born in Guatemala City, ordained a priest in 1976, and appointed Vicar Apostolic of El Petén in 1996. He was installed as Archbishop of Los Altos on 17 April 2007.
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Clemente Marroquín
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Clemente Marroquín Rojas was a Guatemalan journalist and politician.
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Sandra Jovel
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco is a Guatemalan politician and former diplomat. She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala from 27 August 2017, succeeding to Carlos Raúl Morales, to 14 January 2020.
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Adela de Torrebiarte
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- politician
- Biography
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Adela Ana María del Rosario Camacho Sinibaldi de Torrebiarte was a Guatemalan politician.
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Eugenio Aguilar
- Occupations
- politicianmedic
- Biography
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Eugenio Aguilar González Batres was President of El Salvador from 21 February 1846 to 1 February 1848.
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José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón was President of Costa Rica from 1890 to 1894.
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Patricia Marroquín
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hilda Patricia Marroquín Argueta de Morales is a Guatemalan public figure who served as the first lady of Guatemala from 2016 to 2020, as the wife of president Jimmy Morales.
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Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol
- Occupations
- politicianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Juan José de Aycinena y Piñol was an ecclesiastical and intellectual conservative in Central America. He was President of the Pontifical University of San Carlos Borromeo from 1825 to 1829 and then of the Universidad Nacional from 1840 to 1865. He was a thinker criticized by liberal historians for his strong relationship with the conservative government of General Rafael Carrera and for eliminating the possibility of getting the Central American Union which the Liberals wanted. His participation in the government has been assessed more objectively in research conducted between 1980 and 2010. He was heir in 1814 to the noble title of III Marquess of Aycinena, and bishop in partibus of Trajanopolis from 1859. He had a taste for law, oratorical talent and wrote over twenty works.
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José Víctor Zavala
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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José Víctor Ramón Valentín de las Ánimas Zavala y Córdova was a Guatemalan Field Marshal who participated in the wars of Rafael Carrera and the National War of Nicaragua against the invasion of William Walker. After the death of President Carrera in April 1865, Zavala – who was a close friend of the late President – was proposed as the next president, but instead Field Marshal Vicente Cerna y Cerna was appointed. A military brigade headquarters in Guatemala City is named "Mariscal Zavala Brigade" in his honor.
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Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Lorenzo Montúfar y Rivera was a Guatemalan politician and lawyer. Superb leader and speaker, helped the liberal regime of Justo Rufino Barrios, served in the Guatemalan legislature, taught in the College of Law of the Universidad Nacional de Guatemala and, towards the end of his life, was a presidential candidate himself losing to general José María Reyna Barrios. He was also Foreign Secretary of Costa Rica in 1856 and from 1870 to 1873, and President of University of Saint Thomas, also in Costa Rica.
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Frank William La Rue
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- diplomatlawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Frank La Rue is a Guatemalan labor and human rights law expert and served as UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, from August 2008 to August 2014. Along with American Human Rights attorneys, Anna Gallagher and Wallie Mason, Mr. La Rue is the founder of the Center for Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH) and has been involved in the promotion of human rights for over 25 years. He was nominated for (but did not win) the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize by Mairead Corrigan, Northern Irish peace activist and 1976 laureate. Mr La Rue was previously the executive director of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Europe. He has also served as Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO.
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Rosa Leal de Pérez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosa María Leal Flores de Pérez is a Guatemalan psychologist who served as the first lady of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015, as the wife of President Otto Pérez Molina.
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Julia Hassler
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Julia Hassler is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Liechtenstein. She swam for and was Liechtenstein closing-ceremony flagbearer at the 2012 Olympics. She has also swam for Liechtenstein at several other international competitions including the: World Championships (2011), Games of the Small States of Europe (2009, 2011, 2013), European Championships (2014), Short Course Worlds (2010, 2012) and Youth Olympics (2010).
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Andrés del Valle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrés del Valle Rodríguez was President of El Salvador from February 1 until May 1, 1876.
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Francisco Bográn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francisco Bográn Barahona was acting President of Honduras from 5 October 1919 to 1 February 1920. He was the brother of previous president Luis Bográn. He was the President of National Congress of Honduras from 1919 to 1920.
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Gert Rosenthal
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Gert Rosenthal Königsberger is a Guatemalan diplomat.
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Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Aniceto del Carmen Esquivel Sáenz was President of Costa Rica for a brief period of three months in 1876 before being deposed in a coup d'état.
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Jordán Rodas
- Occupations
- lawyercivil servant
- Biography
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Augusto Jordán Rodas Andrade is a Guatemalan attorney and civil servant who from 2017 until 2022 served as Ombudsman of Guatemala, a controversial office in Guatemala's highly polarized political landscape. His 2022 candidacy for the presidency of the San Carlos University was sabotaged, just like his attempt to run, together with Thelma Cabrera, for the 'Movement for the Liberation of the Indigenous Peoples' (MLP) in the 2023 presidential elections.
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Sandra Morán
- Occupations
- women's rights activisthuman rights activistmusicianpoliticianactivist
- Biography
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Sandra Morán Reyes is a Guatemalan politician, who was elected to the Congress of Guatemala in the 2015 election. An out lesbian, she is noted as the first out LGBT person ever elected to the national legislature in Guatemala. She is a member of Convergence, a new progressive party which had two other members elected to the assembly.
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Haroldo Rodas
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Roger Haroldo Rodas Melgar was a Guatemalan economist, politician and diplomat.
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Jonathan Menkos
- Enrolled in the University of San Carlos of Guatemala
- Graduated with Licentiate in economy
- Occupations
- economistacademicwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Jonathan Kiril Thomas Menkos Zeissig is a Guatemalan economist, politician, writer, academic and analyst serving as Guatemala's Minister of Public Finance since January 19, 2024. He previously served as president of the Central American Institute of Fiscal Studies (ICEFI) starting September 2012.
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Antonio José Cañas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Antonio José Cañas Quintanilla was a Salvadoran military officer, diplomat, and politician. For two brief periods he was head of state of the State of El Salvador, within the Federal Republic of Central America (1839 and 1840).
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Juan Alfonso Fuentes Soria
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- diplomatpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Juan Alfonso Fuentes Soria is a politician who was Vice President of Guatemala following the appointment of Alejandro Maldonado as president by the Congress of Guatemala. He is also a dentist who was rector of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
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José Damián Villacorta
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- politicianlawyer
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Licenciado José Damián Villacorta Cañas was a Salvadoran lawyer and politician. He was chief of state of El Salvador from February 16, 1830, to December 4, 1830, while it was a state within the Federal Republic of Central America.
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Raquel Blandón
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- activistlawyer
- Biography
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Haydee Raquel Blandón Sandoval is a Guatemalan lawyer, activist, and political leader who served as the first lady of Guatemala from 1986 to 1991, as the wife of President Vinicio Cerezo. She was the nominee for the Renewed Democratic Liberty party for vice president of Guatemala in the 2011 election as Manuel Baldizón's running mate.
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Miguel Eusebio Bustamante
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Miguel Eusebio Bustamante was a politician from Honduras who served as Acting President of Honduras within Federal Republic of Central America from 30 September 1827 to 30 October 1827. He also served as Vice and Deputy Chief of State in 1827.
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Wendy de Berger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margarita Wendy Widmann Lagarde de Berger is a Guatemalan psychologist who served as the first lady of Guatemala from 2004 to 2008 as the wife of President Óscar Berger. She studied sociology at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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Alejandra Flores
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Emilda María Alejandra Flores García is a Guatemalan soprano.
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Virgilio Rodríguez Beteta
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- historianlawyer
- Biography
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Virgilio Rodríguez Beteta was a Guatemalan lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer.
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Mario Búcaro
- Occupations
- civil servantdiplomat
- Biography
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Mario Adolfo Búcaro Flores is a Guatemalan diplomat and civil servant who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 2022 to January 2024, under the government of Alejandro Giammattei. Previously, he was the Guatemalan Ambassador to Mexico, Israel, Bulgaria and Cyprus.
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Nazario Toledo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nazario Toledo was a Costa Rican politician.
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Rafael Spínola
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianphysicianoratorjournalist
- Biography
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Rafael Spínola was a writer, journalist, politician and public speaker from Guatemala. Director of the well known cultura magazine La Ilustración Guatemalteca in 1896 and 1897, was Secretary of Infrastructure in Manuel Estrada Cabrera first presidential term. He also created the "Fiestas Minervalias", which were a celebration to the studious youth and the president Estrada Cabrera rule. He was also the one that signed the treaty granting the American company "The Central American Improvement Co. Inc." to finish the Northern Railroad -which had been left unfinished after president José María Reina Barrios assassination on 8 February 1898–, which would be the stepping stone for the operations of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala. He was the father of Guatemalan poetesse Magdalena Spínola (1896–1991).
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Manuel Francisco Pavón Aycinena
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Manuel Francisco Pavón Aycinena was a conservative Guatemalan politician during the regime of General Rafael Carrera. He was influential in the founding of the government's executive branch and held several Cabinet offices during his career.
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Georgina Pontaza
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Georgina Pontaza is a Guatemalan actress, singer, choreographer, theater director and producer. She has done work on television and radio in addition to live theater and serves as the artistic director of both the Teatro Abril and Teatro Fantasía IRTRA in Guatemala City.
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Luis Batres Juarros
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luis Batres Juarros or Luis Batres y Juarros was an influential conservative Guatemalan politician during the regime of General Rafael Carrera. Member of the Aycinena clan, was in charge of writing most of the legislation that was enacted during this period. The liberal historians portray him as a villain in a despotic and tyrannical government headed by illiterate Raca Carraca - Rafael Carrera - who was taking each and every one of Batres recommendations since he was considered infallible; However, research conducted between 1980 and 2010 has shown a more objective biography of both Batres and Rafael Carrera and show that it was in fact Carrera who had the reins of the Conservative government.
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Ricardo Casanova y Estrada
- Years
- 1844-1913 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Ricardo Casanova y Estrada "The Great" was a Guatemalan Catholic priest that became the eleventh Archbishop of Guatemala from 1886 to 1913. He had a role opposing president general Manuel Lisandro Barillas Bercián (1885-1896), who eventually expelled Casanova y Estrada from Guatemala. After a generous amnesty granted by president general José María Reina Barrios on 13 March 1897, the archbishop returned to Guatemala and was received by large crowds and joy.
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Ana Cofiño
- Occupations
- historiananthropologisteditor
- Biography
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Ana María Cofiño Kepfer is a Guatemalan researcher, anthropologist, editor, and historian. She is the founder and co-editor of the feminist magazine La Cuerda and the bookstore El Pensativo. She is a prominent activist in favor of women's rights, gender equality, and the defense of indigenous communities from expropriation by the state and foreign companies.
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Francisca Fernández-Hall
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- engineerdiplomat
- Biography
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Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was a Guatemalan engineer and diplomat. She was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman in all of Central America to earn an engineering degree, the first woman to be accepted and to attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and the first female ambassador for Guatemala.
