2022 in Guatemala

Events

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16 February – 2022 Guatemala earthquake: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes southern Guatemala, causing light damage, landslides, three deaths from heart attacks, and injuring two people.^[1]
8 March – Journalist Orlando Villanueva is killed in Puerto Barrios.^[2]
16 May – President Alejandro Giammattei reappoints Consuelo Porras as Attorney General amid a flawed selection process.^[2]
9 July – Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.^[3]
25 June – Guatemala Pride returns after two years, drawing over 10,000 participants and featuring embassy delegations.^[4]
30 July – Armed civilians attack a checkpoint during President Giammattei’s visit to La Laguna, Huehuetenango; one person is injured, four arrested, the president is unharmed, and the official account is questioned.^[5]
11 August – Demonstrators protest alleged government corruption outside Guatemala’s National Palace of Culture.^[2]
16 November – Prosecutors accuse President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and Vice President-elect Karin Herrera of backing university protests, and request to strip their political immunity.^[6]

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Deaths

January 6 – Rómulo Méndez, 83, football referee^[7]
February 17 – Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Verapaz (1971–2001)^[8]
February 24 – Roberto Carpio, 91, politician, vice president (1986–1991)^[9]
March 14 – José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa, 92, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Guatemala (1967–2010)^[10]

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