Huehuetenango is a city in the highlands of western Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Huehuetenango. The population was about 88,600 people at the end of 2003*. The city is located at 15°32′N 91°47′W, 269 km from Guatemala City. A panorama of Sydney, Australia at night. ... Huehuetenango is a department in Guatemala. ... Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; locally known as Guatemala or, informally, Guate) is the capital and largest city of Guatemala and in Central America. ...

Huehuetenango was founded by Gonzalo de Alvarado in 1524** after the Spanish conquest of the Maya capital of Zaculeu, the Pre-Columbian capital of the Mam Maya people. Many people of Mam decent still live in and around Huehuetenago, and the ruins of Zaculeu is a tourist attraction a short distance from town. The Maya civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization, which extended throughout the northern Central American region which includes the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras and El Salvador, as well as the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán Peninsula states of Quintana Roo, Campeche... Zaculeu is a Pre-Columbian archeological site in the highlands of south western Guatemala, a short distance outside of the city of Huehuetenango. ... The term Pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the New World in the era before significant European influence. ... The Mam are a Native American people of the highlands of western Guatemala. ... The Maya peoples constitute a diverse range of the Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America. ...

Former president Efraín Ríos Montt was born in Huehuetenango. Huehuetenango's primary export is coffee. The President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1851, when that title was assumed by José Rafael Carrera, who had been acting as head of government as general and Caudillo since 1840. ... José Efraín Ríos Montt (born June 16, 1926) an ex-dicator and General of Guatemala and former president of the Congress of Guatemala. ...

A former G-2 agent says that the base he worked at in Huehuetenango maintained its own crematorium and "processed" abductees by chopping off limbs, singeing flesh and administering electric shocks. At least three of the recent G-2 chiefs have been paid by the CIA, according to U.S. and Guatemalan intelligence sources.[1] The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...

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