The Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) explores the legends and mythology in pre-Columbian to understand the reality of indigenous life. His novel strong wind was cited in the speech of the Nobel Prize award, which was awarded for "his colorful writings deeply rooted in individualit ...
09.30.08 | History | Read more
Catholic Church, San Luis Jilotepeque
Jalapa is a department in the south east of Guatemala. Its climate is one of the best in the world. It is an entirely pleasant climate, neither cold nor hot. Jalapa, for this very special feature is known as La Morena weather of the East.
The media is of ...
09.27.08 | History | Read more
Izabal, Guatemala department located in the far eastern part of the country, bordering Belize and Honduras to the north east. In its northern sector highlights the coastline which is situated in the Bay Amatique, while in the mountains of the interior stand out Mico and Santa Cruz, with a central ...
09.26.08 | History | Read more
For a few years, between 1881 and 1885, the header was moved to Chiantla, because I had to Hatred Huehuetenango the notorious political boss Evaristo Cash, who committed all sorts of abuses against huehuetecos, invoking his status as a relative political General Justo Rufino Barrios.
Finally i ...
09.22.08 | History | Read more
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The city of Huehuetenango occupies the site of the ancient indigenous population which became known as Chinabajul (between ravines).
Well contained, for example, in relation War's common K'iche and Kaqchikel, in the year 1554.
Huehuetenango was per ...
09.21.08 | History | Read more