2016 in Guatemala

Incumbents

• Acting President: Alejandro Maldonado, 3 September 2015-current
• President-elect: Jimmy Morales, will take office on 14 January

  Events

• Police arrested Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia, brother of former President Fernando Romeo Lucas García, and 13 others on 7 January on suspicion of involvement in the murders of 558 people during the Guatemalan Civil War.
• Soldiers shoot a 13 year old boy named Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano and his younger border on the Belieze-Guatemala border starting border tensions.

  Public holidays