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-- Exchange-Rate Exposure The quetzal has stayed relatively stable near Q7.65 per US dollar, but foreigners paying rents or services priced in dollars face a premium that local budgets avoid. A single foreigner can live…
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-- Exchange-Rate Exposure The quetzal has stayed relatively stable near Q7.65 per US dollar, but foreigners paying rents or services priced in dollars face a premium that local budgets avoid. A single foreigner can live…
The Rio Times · 31 Jul 2026
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-- Legislative Path The bill was presented by the Tourism Commission and must still pass through plenary consideration in Congress. Guatemala tourism law reform landed in the country's Congress on July 30, 2026, carryin…
The Rio Times · 31 Jul 2026
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-- Municipal impact The reform removes a key municipal revenue stream, raising concerns about local government budgets. Guatemala IUSI property tax rules are set for a major overhaul after Congress voted decisively on W…
The Rio Times · 30 Jul 2026
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-- Exchange-Rate Exposure The quetzal has stayed relatively stable near Q7.65 per US dollar, but foreigners paying rents or services priced in dollars face a premium that local budgets avoid. A single foreigner can live…
The Rio Times · 31 Jul 2026
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-- Legislative Path The bill was presented by the Tourism Commission and must still pass through plenary consideration in Congress. Guatemala tourism law reform landed in the country's Congress on July 30, 2026, carryin…
The Rio Times · 31 Jul 2026
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-- Municipal impact The reform removes a key municipal revenue stream, raising concerns about local government budgets. Guatemala IUSI property tax rules are set for a major overhaul after Congress voted decisively on W…
The Rio Times · 30 Jul 2026
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GUATEMALA CITY, July 28 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan man deported from the United States and his wife, who recently self-deported to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said…
Reuters · 28 Jul 2026
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-- Broader Trend. Justice institutions in Guatemala have recently taken an active role in heritage spaces, including a court-ordered relocation of the Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua. Guatemala's Judicial Branch has s…
The Rio Times · 27 Jul 2026
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JERUSALEM (JNS) - In a ceremony at Jerusalem's City of David National Park on Friday, Guatemala dedicated a commemorative plaque recognizing the City of David -- the site of biblical Jerusalem -- and the millennia of hi…
vinnews.com · 24 Jul 2026
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* Opinion by Inés M. Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) * Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 24 (IPS) - José Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico, Guatemala's now-defunct leading investigative newspaper, spent 1…
Global Issues · 24 Jul 2026
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Manuel Botom Uz was just four years old when he and his siblings were attacked by the Guatemalan army in his Indigenous community in Quiche, in northwest Guatemala, in 1982 during the height of the…
Mail Online · 23 Jul 2026
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Manuel Botom Uz was just four years old when he and his siblings were attacked by the Guatemalan army in his Indigenous community in Quiche, in northwest Guatemala, in 1982 during the height of th…
Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer · 23 Jul 2026
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Manuel Botom Uz was just four years old when he and his siblings were attacked by the Guatemalan army in his Indigenous community in Quiche, in northwest Guatemala, in 1982 during the height of th…
Yahoo · 23 Jul 2026
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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- Two brothers from Guatemala were detained when federal agents swept their Camden neighborhood Monday, and now a Haddonfield restaurant where they worked is trying to help. The brother of…
Audacy · 22 Jul 2026
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Guatemala City, Jul 19 (Prensa Latina) Guatemala's Foreign Ministry highlighted on Sunday the historical and cultural ties that unite and enrich Ibero-America, on the celebration of the Community's Day. The Guatemalan F…
Prensa Latina · 20 Jul 2026
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-- Central Bank View Banco de Guatemala maintained its 4.1% growth projection for all of 2026. Guatemala GDP grew 4.5% in the first quarter of 2026, accelerating from 3.8% in the same period last year, official data sho…
The Rio Times · 20 Jul 2026
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MOSCOW, July 17 (RIA Novosti) - Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo said on Friday that there are currently no casualties as a result of the earthquake off the country's coast. Earlier in the day, Guatemalan seismolog…
nampa.org · 17 Jul 2026
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-- Extended Park Illuminations EEGSA light structures in four main parks will remain lit from early to late July, from 6:00 p.m. to midnight, extending the festival experience. Antigua Guatemala's Festival de la Luz ret…
The Rio Times · 16 Jul 2026
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-- The context. Public debt sits near 27% of GDP, and Guatemala is one notch below investment grade at all three agencies. Guatemala GDP growth reached four and a half percent in the first quarter, which is both genuine…
The Rio Times · 15 Jul 2026
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Guatemala's business process outsourcing (BPO) sector has the workforce that US companies want to run their nearshore operations: young, cost-competitive, geographically close. But it doesn't have enough people who can…
Nearshore Americas · 14 Jul 2026
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan prosecutors on Monday arrested the former representative of a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission that was expelled from the country several years ago. The arrest of Claudi…
CityNews Kitchener · 28 Aug 2023
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