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The following lists events in the year 2022 in Guatemala.
Incumbents
[edit]- President:Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla (since 2020)
- Vice-President: César Guillermo Castillo Reyes (since 2020)
Events
[edit]Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala
- 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]
Deaths
[edit]- 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]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Sismo de 6.2 grados deja a tres muertos en Guatemala". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ a b c Human Rights Watch (2023-01-12), "Guatemala: Events of 2022", Human Rights Watch, retrieved 2025-08-06
- ^ "Guatemala aumenta a 66 sus municipios en alerta roja por la covid-19". Infobae (in European Spanish). 9 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
- ^ "Pride 2022: una fiesta de resistencia a la existencia diversa". No-Ficción (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ Solórzano, Andrea (2022-07-31). "Gobierno manipula, en momento álgido, con "atentado"". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ Abbott, Jeff. "What's behind efforts to strip Guatemala's president-elect of his immunity?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ "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
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Media related to 2022 in Guatemala at Wikimedia Commons
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