Guatemala
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- January 14, 1986, suspended in 1993, reintroduced and amended in November 2003
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- civil rights; judicial review of legislative acts
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Congress of the Republic (Congreso de la República)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Court
RELIGIONS
Catholics, Protestants, indigenous Maya beliefs
From the country
- JANUARY 1, 2006GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
The Guatemalan penal code (1973) provides for the death penalty for parricide...
The Guatemalan penal code (1973) provides for the death penalty for parricide, aggravated homicide and assassination of the President or Vice-President.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2005GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
The Guatemalan penal code (1973) provides for the death penalty for parricide, aggravated homicide and assassination of the President or Vice-President.
The Guatemalan penal code (1973) provides for the death penalty for parricide, aggravated homicide and assassination of the President or Vice-President.
- APRIL 20, 2005GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 6, 2005GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
GUATEMALA. DEATH PENALTY UNDER REVIEW
it was reported that Guatemala, one of the last Latin American nations with capital punishment, was considering doing away with it.
- JANUARY 1, 2005GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
GUATEMALA. ABOLITIONIST BILL POSSIBLE
despite a crime wave that has plagued Guatemala, pressure has been mounting from within the government, human rights activists and even from foreign diplomats to abolish capital punishment.
- APRIL 21, 2004GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death...
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 11, 2004GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
The Guatemalan penal code (1973) provides for the death penalty for parricide, aggravated homicide and assassination of the President or Vice-President.
The Guatemalan penal code (1973) provides for the death penalty for parricide, aggravated homicide and assassination of the President or Vice-President.
- NOVEMBER 14, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Guatemala sentenced Santos Hernandez to...
A court in Guatemala sentenced Santos Hernandez to death by lethal injection for killing five native family members in Chiquimula
- MAY 16, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
The Economist reported that according to an American...
The Economist reported that according to an American report of January 2003, Guatemalan police "stole twice the quantity of drugs that they officially seized and
- APRIL 24, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death...
Guatemala abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- MARCH 21, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Mutual Support Group (GAM), a Guatemalan human rights...
Mutual Support Group (GAM), a Guatemalan human rights group, said death-squad agents linked to the state committed nine summary executions in the first two months of the year
- AUGUST 6, 2002GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
Guatemalan lawmakers began debating a presidential...
Guatemalan lawmakers began debating a presidential request to ban capital punishment