2019 in Guatemala explained

The following lists events in the year 2019 in Guatemala.

Incumbents

28 March – At least 18 killed when a truck crashes into a crowd along the Pan-American Highway in Nahualá, Solola^[1]
16 June – Scheduled date for the 2019 Guatemalan general election
11 August – Alejandro Giammattei wins the second round of the presidential elections with 58% of the vote, defeating Sandra Torres, wife of the current president.

10 January – Juan Francisco Reyes, politician, Vice President (b. 1938).^[2]
28 January – Humberto Ak'ab'al, poet (b. 1952).^[3]
13 April – Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Huehuetenango (b. 1932).^[4]
14 May – Wilmer Josue Ramirez Vasquez, 2, Guatemalan refugee who died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, Texas; multiple intestinal and respiratory infectious diseases^[5]
25 September – Michael Coe, 90, American archaeologist and anthropologist who worked in Guatemala and Mexico (b. 1929)^[6]
1 November – Rina Lazo, 93, muralist (Fertile Earth), painter, and activist in Guatemala (Order of the Quetzal, 2004) and Mexico (b. Guatemala City, 1923)^[7]