Guatemala National Anthem

National Anthem of Guatemala
Glad (Joyous) Guatemala! may your altar
Never be trampled by the tormentor
Nor may slaves lick the yoke
Nor may tyrants spit upon your face
If tomorrow your sacred soil
By foreign invasion is threatened
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it shall call
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it shall call
Your people will, with fiery soul,
die before being enslaved.
From your old and hard chains
You forged, with an ire-driven hand,
The plow that fertilizes the soil
And the honor-saving sword.
Our fathers fought one day,
Lit up in patriotic burning
And they managed, without bloody clash,
To place you on a throne of love.
And they achieved, without bloody clash,
To place you on a throne of love,
And our Nation, in energetic assent,
Gave life to the redeeming ideal.
Your emblem is a piece of the sky
From which a cloud gets its whiteness
And woe onto him who dares in blind madness
your colours to stain!
For your sons, brave and zealous,
who adore peace as a great treasure
will never avoid the rough battle
to defend their land and their home.
They will never avoid the rough battle
to defend their land and their home
as well as the altar of the mother country,
their altar.
Lying upon the proud Ande,
of the two oceans, hearing its noise,
under the gold and crimson red wing of the beautiful quetzal
you will become entranced.

Native bird that lives in your seal
the protector of your soil
May it fly high
more than the condor and the royal eagle!

May it fly high
more than the condor and the royal eagle
And in its wings, may it raise up to the sky
Guatemala, your name, immortal!
Source

Currency
Guatemalan Quetzal
GTQ

Emergency numbers
Ambulance: 123
Fire: 123
Police: 110

Languages
Spanish 69.9%
Maya languages 29.7%
Other 0.4% (includes Xinca and Garifuna)

Guatemala Political parties
Encounter for Guatemala
Encuentro por Guatemala
Founded : 2007
Website : http://encuentro.gt/

Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca URNG-MAIZ
Founded : 7 February 1982
Website : http://www.urng-maiz.org.gt/

National Advancement Party
Partido de Avanzada Nacional PAN
Founded : 1989
Website : http://www.pan-gt.com/

National Unity of Hope
Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza UNE
Founded : 6 September 2002
Website : http://www.une.com.gt/

Nationalist Change Union
Unión del Cambio Nacionalista UCN
Founded : 20 November 2006

CREO-Unionist Party
Partido CREO-Unionista
Founded : 27 October 2010
Website : http://creo.org.gt/

Victoria
some strength in Solola and Palín

National Convergence Front
Frente de Convergencia Nacional FCN
Founded : January 7, 2008; 11 years ago
Website : http://www.fcnnacion.com/

Winaq
People

Vision with Values
Vision con Valores ViVa
Founded : 20 January 2007
Website : http://www.visionconvalores.com/

Parties that did not contest the 2007 election

Reform Movement
Movimiento Reformador
Founded : 6 April 1995

Social Democrat Party

Religions
Spanish 69.9%
Maya languages 29.7%
Other 0.4% (includes Xinca and Garifuna)

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