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Formed | December 27, 1944 |
Headquarters | Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores 2da avenida 4-17 zona 10 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Agency executive | |
Website | MINEX |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala is the executive office in charge of conducting the international relations of the country. This ministry can give the Guatemalan nationality, enforces the immigration laws of the country, preserves the national limits and boundaries, negotiates international treaties and agreements with other countries and preserves the copies of the ones signed by Guatemala. It is appointed by law to preserve the national interests overseas and to be part of the National Security System.
Background and History
Starting in the 19th century, right after independence from Spain was signed, the public administration was slowly organized. There was a first stage when Guatemala was a part of the United Provinces of Central America, and a second stage starting in 1847, when Guatemala became an independent, free and sovereign republic to administer its own public affairs. Through that time, the different executive offices were organized as "secretariats", following the Spanish nomenclature. This terminology included the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, which kept its name until after the Revolution of 1944. Decree #47, passed by the Revolutionary Joint on December 27, 1944, still used this category. However, when the new Constitution came into force on March 15, 1945, the Constitutional system created the Ministries of State. For that reason, Congress passed a bill for the organization of the Executive Branch, which first spoke of a Foreign Affairs Ministry, on April 25, 1945.
Foreign Affairs
Currently, Guatemala holds diplomatic relations with 152 countries. It has 37 embassies throughout the World, and 4 missions in International Organizations. It plans to open two more in 2014, in India and Australia.
Embassy | Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotenciary |
Belgium | Jorge Skinner-Klee Arenales |
Vatican | Alfonso Roberto José Matta Fahsen |
Argentina | Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado |
Belice | Manuel Arturo Pérez Miralda |
Brasil | Julio Armando Martini Herrera |
Canada | Georges de la Roche du Ronzet Plihal |
Chile | Guisela Atalida Godínez Sazo |
Colombia | Manlio Fernando Sesenna Olivero |
South Korea | Gustavo Adolfo López Calderón |
Costa Rica | Héctor Rolando Palacios Lima |
Cuba | Juan León Alvarado |
Ecuador | Irma Rebeca Monzón Rojas |
Egypt | Lars Henrik Pira Pérez |
The Netherlands | Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arévalo |
The United Kigdom | Acisclo Domingo Valladares Molina |
El Salvador | Luis Rolando Torres Casanova |
Spain | Carla María Rodríguez Mancia |
The United States of America | José Julio Alejandro Ligorría Carballido |
France | Marco Tulio Gustavo Chicas Sosa |
Honduras | Hugo René Hemmerling González |
Israel | Alfredo Vásquez Rivera |
Japan | Byron René Escobedo Menéndez |
Russia | Herbert Estuardo Meneses Coronado |
Austria | Antonio Roberto Castellanos López |
Germany | Carlos Humberto Jiménez Licona |
Italy | Stephanie Hochstetter Skinner-Klee |
Mexico | Fernando Andrade Díaz-Durán |
Nicaragua | Héctor Darío Gularte Estrada |
Norway | Marta Eulalia Estrada Xicará |
Panama | Anamaría Diéguez Arévalo |
Peru | Gabriel Edgardo Aguilera Peralta |
Dominican Republic | Alejandro José Buitrón Porras |
Sweden | Jorge Ricardo Putzeys Urigüen |
Taiwan | Arturo Romeo Duarte Ortiz |
Trinidad and Tobago | Geovani René Castillo Polanco |
Uruguay | Roberto Leva Rapela |
Venezuela | Erick Roberto Molina Sandoval |