Guatemala

Capital: Guatemala City

Population: 14,000,000

Currency: Guatemalan Quetzal

Government: Presidential Republic

President: Álvaro Colom

Languages Spoken: Spanish (Primary) and 22 Indigenous Languages

History of Guatemala:

900 AD: Collapse of the Mayan Classical Kingdoms

1519 AD – 1609 AD: Spanish Colonization of Guatemala

1609 AD – 1821 AD: Guatemala becomes a Captaincy General of New Spain

1821 AD: Guatemala declares its independence from New Spain

1898 AD – 1920 AD: Guatemala is ruled under the Estrada dictatorship

1944 AD: Coup D’état against President Juan Federico Ponce Vaides

1954 AD: Coup D’état against President Jacobo Arbenz

1960 AD – 1996 AD: Guatemalan collapses into Civil War

Communities We Serve in Guatemala:

• La Antigua
• San Miguel Escobar, Ciudad Vieja
  
• Santo Apolonia
• Tecpán
• Azacualpa
• Piedras Azules
• Gualán
• Juan Ponce
• Guatemala City
• Mixco
• San Lorenzo El Cubo
  
• El Milagro, Masagua
  
• San Luis Tecuaco
• Santa María de Jesús
• El Velasquito