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Decades:

Incumbents

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

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala

July 9 – Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.^[1]
July 30 – One person is wounded in an assassination attempt on President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei. The president is unharmed.^[2]

Sports

August 2021 - May 2022: 2021–22 Liga Nacional de Guatemala
July 2022 - May 2023: 2022–23 Liga Nacional de Guatemala

Deaths

January 6 – Rómulo Méndez, 83, football referee^[3]
February 17 – Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Verapaz (1971–2001)^[4]
February 24 – Roberto Carpio, 91, politician, vice president (1986–1991)^[5]
March 14 – José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa, 92, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Guatemala (1967–2010)^[6]

References

^ "Guatemala aumenta a 66 sus municipios en alerta roja por la covid-19". Infobae (in European Spanish). 9 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ US News, A. B. C. "1 wounded in attack on army guarding Guatemala president". ABC News. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "Fallece Rómulo Méndez el árbitro guatemalteco que estuvo en los mundiales de 1982 y 1986" (in Spanish). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "Fallece Monseñor Gerardo Flores, obispo emérito de La Verapaz". www.soy502.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-14.
^ "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.
^ "Bishop José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2022-09-14.

External links

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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v t e 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

v t e 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
Middle 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.

2022 in the Caribbean

West
Indies

Antilles

Greater
Antilles

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

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
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward
Islands

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
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ 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.