[
US
/ˌɡwɑtəˈmɑɫə/
]
NOUN
- a republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; noted for low per capita income and illiteracy; politically unstable
How To Use Guatemala In A Sentence
- The southern half of the Republic of Guatemala mainly consists of beautiful mountain highlands and plateaus, which are susceptible to devastating earthquakes.
- Tens of thousands also marched in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama.
- Voice, shawms, and dulcians will bring to life the rarely heard music of early Guatemalan manuscripts, found in Bloomington's own famed Lilly Library.
- the United States sent military advisors to Guatemala
- Countries such as Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala have a strong evangelical and Protestant tradition.
- You'll also get a full day to explore Tikal, the massive Mayan ceremonial pyramid in nearby Guatemala.
- In its introduction to this report, Guatemala noted the difficulty of assembling it, stressing that studies of this type are only a recent innovation.
- Until now, the earliest leftovers of cocoa consumption were in residues from a Maya tomb in Guatemala from A.D. 460 to 480.
- But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside. Hungry in Guatemala
- Our growing military engagement in Guatemala, Cuba, and Vietnam created a counter-insurgency mentality among political and military leaders who hoped to stifle spreading "brushfire" wars through the deployment of counter-guerrilla forces of their own. A Special Supplement: Anthropology on the Warpath in Thailand