2022 in Guatemala

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* 2000s
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See also:|

* Other events of 2022
* Timeline of Guatemalan history

See also: 2022 in Central America and 2022 in the Caribbean

The following lists events in the year 2022 in Guatemala.

## Incumbents

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* President:Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei Falla (since 2020)
* Vice-President: César Guillermo Castillo Reyes (since 2020)

## Events

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Further information: Public holidays in Guatemala

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

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* 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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* COVID-19 pandemic in North America
* 2020s
* 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
* 2020s in political history

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* Category: Guatemala

## References

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1. ^ "Sismo de 6.2 grados deja a tres muertos en Guatemala". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 2022-02-16. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
2. ^ a b c Human Rights Watch (2023-01-12), "Guatemala: Events of 2022", Human Rights Watch, retrieved 2025-08-06
3. ^ "Guatemala aumenta a 66 sus municipios en alerta roja por la covid-19". Infobae (in European Spanish). 9 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
4. ^ "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.
5. ^ Solórzano, Andrea (2022-07-31). "Gobierno manipula, en momento álgido, con "atentado"". La Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-06.
6. ^ Abbott, Jeff. "What's behind efforts to strip Guatemala's president-elect of his immunity?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
7. ^ "Fallece Rómulo Méndez el árbitro guatemalteco que estuvo en los mundiales de 1982 y 1986" (in Spanish). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
8. ^ "Fallece Monseñor Gerardo Flores, obispo emérito de La Verapaz". www.soy502.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
9. ^ "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.
10. ^ "Bishop José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-09-14.

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## External links

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Media related to 2022 in Guatemala at Wikimedia Commons

* 13 young Guatemalans who left for a better future were slain in Mexico, families say (by Kate Linthicum & Jeff Abbott, January 30, 2021, Los Angeles Times

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Years in Guatemala (1821–present)

19th century|

* 1821
* 1822
* 1823
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* 1900

20th century|

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21st century|

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2022 in North America

Sovereign states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Canada
*   * Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
*   * Trinidad and Tobago
* United States

Dependencies, colonies
and other territories

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Navassa Island
*   *   * Puerto Rico
*   *   * United States Virgin Islands

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2022 in Central America

Sovereign states|

* Belize
* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Honduras
* Nicaragua
* Panama

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2022 in Latin America and the Caribbean

Caribbean|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Aruba
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Cuba
* Curaçao
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Grenada
* Haiti
* Jamaica
* Puerto Rico
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Sint Maarten
* Trinidad and Tobago

Central America|

* Belize
* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Honduras
* Nicaragua
* Panama

North America|

* Mexico

South America|

* Argentina
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Chile
* Colombia
* Ecuador
* French Guiana
* Guyana
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Suriname
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies not included. Semi-autonomous territories are in italics.

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2022 in the Caribbean

* British West Indies
* Danish West Indies
* Dutch Caribbean
* Caribbean Netherlands
* Netherlands Antilles
* French West Indies
* West Indies Federation

West
Indies|

| Antilles|

| Greater
Antilles|

* Cayman Islands
* Cuba
* Jamaica
* Navassa Island
* Puerto Rico

| Hispaniola|

* Dominican Republic
* Haiti

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Lesser
Antilles|

| Leeward
Islands|

* Anguilla
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Guadeloupe
* La Désirade
* Les Saintes
* Marie-Galante
* Montserrat
* Saba^*
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Sint Eustatius^*

| Saint Martin^|

* Collectivity of Saint Martin
* Sint Maarten

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Virgin Islands|

* British Virgin Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean|

| Leeward
Antilles|

* Insular Venezuela
* Federal Dependencies
* Nueva Esparta

| ABC islands|

* Aruba
* Bonaire*
* Curaçao

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Windward
Islands|

* Dominica
* Grenada
* Carriacou and Petite Martinique
* Martinique
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Barbados†
* Trinidad and Tobago†

Lucayan
Archipelago|

* Bahamas
* Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea|

* Aves Island
* San Andrés and Providencia
* Bajo Nuevo Bank~
* Serranilla Bank~

Caribbean
continental
zone|

* Quintana Roo
* Cozumel

| Central America|

* Belize
* Honduras
* Bay Islands
* Izabal
* Limón
* Corn Islands
* North Caribbean Coast
* South Caribbean Coast
* Panama

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South America|

* Colombian Caribbean
* Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:|

* Bermuda#
* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Nicaragua

| Yucatán Peninsula|

* Campeche
* Petén
* Yucatán

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The Guianas|

* Amapá
* French Guiana
* Venezuelan Guayana
* Guyana
* Guayana Esequibaǂ
* Tigri Areaǂ
* Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.
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