Ruler · 1946 – 2018

Álvaro Arzú

Lived 1946 – 2018; politician. President of Guatemala (Guatemala), 1996 – 2000.

Wikidata's English label: Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1946 – 2018; 72 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Guatemala
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Guatemala

Guatemala · the 36th of 44 dated reigns · 1839 – 2024

32 before

Jorge Serrano Elías1991 – 1993

Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero1993

Ramiro de León Carpio1993 – 1996

Álvaro Arzú1996 – 2000

Alfonso Portillo2000 – 2004

Óscar Berger2004 – 2008

Álvaro Colom2008 – 2012

5 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1996 – 2000 · 4 years · came to it aged 50

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

However, he resigned later that year in protest against Serrano's decision to normalize relations with Belize, over most of whose territory Guatemala has long-standing claims.

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