Executive decree6-2026

Title in the index

Se declara Estado de Prevención en los departamentos de Guatemala, Escuintla, Izabal, San Marcos y Huehuetenango de la República de Guatemala durante 15 días

Ante la continuidad de medidas estatales para prevenir y reprimir acciones contra las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado y el orden público, incluyendo ataques armados contra autoridades civiles por parte de maras o pandillas, u otras…

The instrument's title and the issuing authority's name print in Spanish in both editions, because they are the gazette's own words. Translating the title of a legal norm would mean issuing a title the gazette never gave it.

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Published Apr 21, 2026

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The three dates

Issued
Apr 20, 2026
The date the index gives as the date of issue.
Published
Apr 21, 2026
The edition of the gazette the source published it in.
In force
Not derivable from the index
The index gives publication, never force.

1 day between the date of issue and the date of publication.

The record

Every mark on this record opens. Inside is what it means, and what it does not.

The fields

Class: Executive decreedecreto_gubernativo
What this isClose
What it is
The instrument's legal form. It is what settles its rank: who could issue it, what force it carries, and which higher norm it cannot contradict.
The class does not tell you the subject. A governmental agreement regulates a law and confers a decoration in exactly the same form.
More on this class
Number: 6-2026
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What it is
The number the instrument is cited by: a serial and a year, “49-2023”. With the class it forms the instrument's name, and it is enough to request it at any office.
Where the index did not publish it, the record prints the document's identifier in the gazette and marks it as such. That identifier will get you to the document; it will not let you cite it.
Issuing authority: Secretaría General de la Presidencia
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What it is
The name the index records as the issuing authority.
All 630 rows in this register record the same one: Secretaría General de la Presidencia. That is the office the publication passes through, not necessarily the organ that signed — a ministerial agreement is signed by a minister. The archive copies the field as it stands and does not improve it.
State in the archive: PUBLISHEDThis is the state of the record inside the archive, not the state of the instrument inside the law.
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What it is
“PUBLISHED” is the state of the row inside this archive: detection completed, the source recorded, the link resolving.
It is not a legal status. It does not say in force, it does not say repealed, and it does not say the norm still stands. All 630 rows in the register carry this state, including the ones the source published with defects.
Issued: Apr 20, 2026
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What it is
The date the index gives as the date of issue: the day the authority signed the instrument.
Days or months can pass between signature and publication, and in this register they do. The distance between the two is a fact about the procedure, not an error.
Published: Apr 21, 2026
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What it is
The date of the Diario de Centro América edition in which the source records this instrument as published. It is the only fact about time this index certifies.
Publishing is not signing and it is not entry into force. It is the act that makes a norm binding on everyone, and the one that starts the clock in article 180 of the Constitution.
In force: Not derivable from the index
What this isClose
What it is
From when the instrument binds. This archive does not know and does not compute it.
Source: catalogo.senacyt.gob.gttier 1
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What it is
The door this row came through, with the link to the document exactly as the source serves it.
Two sources feed this register and they fail in different ways. The record always says which one the row you are reading came through.
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What it is
Tier 1 is the highest provenance this archive recognizes: the source is the official issuer of the datum or its gazette of record, not an intermediary repeating it.
The tier grades the chain, not the content. A tier 1 row can carry a broken title or an incomplete number — and in this register it does. It measures who the datum came from, not how well the issuer published it.
Archive id: #274
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What it is
The row's identifier inside this archive.
It has no value outside these pages and is not cited. It is here so you can come back to this same row.

What this record does not say

The marks on this record

In force
This record gives publication. Whether the instrument is in force, from when, in whole or article by article, is stated only by its text — and this archive has not read it.
What this isClose
The general rule is set by article 180 of the Constitution: a law begins to govern eight days after its full publication in the official gazette, unless the law itself widens or narrows that term or its territorial scope. The exception is the ordinary case — almost every instrument fixes its own commencement in its final article, and many stagger entry into force article by article. Add later repeals, and the provisional suspension the Constitutional Court can order over a challenged provision. None of that fits in an index of publications: it is in the text.
What to conclude
If you need to know whether this governs today, open it. This record certifies that it was published, and nothing more. The note the source keeps with the row says so in the same words.
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What the archive detected
The stored title is exactly 400 characters long and stops mid-word.
Why it happened
The cut is ours, not the source's: the field was clipped to 400 characters when the record was ingested, and nothing was recorded to say so. The gazette published the full text; what is missing was lost at this end.
What to conclude
Read the title in the official document. The one shown here is incomplete and should not be quoted as the whole statement.
Across the register
18 rows in the archive arrived with their titles clipped to 400 characters
Derived by the archive as the record prints
The subject matters of the instrument.
The index does not classify by subject. The column exists in the archive and is empty on all 646 rows: it fills the day the source publishes it, and not before.
Entry into force article by article, where an instrument staggers it.
Empty across the whole register, for the same reason the general commencement is: it takes the text of the instrument, and this archive has not read it.

Note kept with the record

CKAN batch publication (four-month blocks). Vigencia (in-force status) is NOT derivable here — publication date only. Per-article effective dates require the DCA text.

Where this row came from

The national open-data catalog

Four-month batches published as data files, carrying the instrument's number, its title and its dates.

The batch arrives better formed, but not clean: this is where the titles with lost characters come from, and the numbers whose year had to be completed from the filename.

Definition

How to read this record

Every field, every mark and the class of the instrument itself has its definition here. None of them describes this document: they describe the form it was issued in, and what the archive knows and does not know about it.

These definitions describe the legal form and the archive's own marks, not the document on this page. They rest on the Constitution of the Republic and the Executive Branch Law, cited by article. The archive has not read this instrument and does not say what it is about.

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The class of instrument

Executive decree

A decree of the President for what the Constitution empowers him to decree: today, the states of exception.

What it is

This is the form the President uses when the Constitution itself empowers him to decree, and not merely to regulate (article 183(e)). In today's practice it is the instrument of the states of exception — prevention, alarm, public calamity, siege and war — which the President declares in Council of Ministers when the grounds in article 138 and the Public Order Law are met. The decree must state the cause, the territory and the term, and it goes to Congress, which ratifies, modifies or rejects it. For anyone operating here it matters for what it suspends: movement, assembly and hours, over a defined territory and for a defined term.

The register holds 10 of this class, out of 630 dated instruments detected. It is what detection has reached in the gazette, not the complete body of Guatemalan law.

What it can do

Declare a state of exception, delimit the territory and the term, and temporarily suspend the guarantees article 138 lists.

What it cannot do

Stand on its own. It must be reported to Congress, which ratifies, modifies or rejects it; it cannot suspend guarantees beyond those article 138 lists, and it cannot run past its term without a fresh decree.

Where it ranks

A presidential act, like the governmental agreement, but on a different footing: it does not develop a law, it exercises a power the Constitution grants the President directly. That is why, for as long as it lasts, it can do what no agreement can: suspend guarantees the Constitution itself lists.

Issued by

The President of the Republic in Council of Ministers

Where each form sits

No norm may contradict the one above it, and the Constitution says so without qualification: a law that violates or distorts a constitutional mandate is void by operation of law (article 175), and so is any governmental provision, of whatever order, that diminishes or restricts a right the Constitution guarantees (article 44).

Constitution of the Republic
Above everything. The Constitutional Court strikes down what contradicts it, and may provisionally suspend a challenged provision.
Ratified treaties and conventions
Congress approves them and they bind the State. On human rights the Constitution gives them precedence over domestic law (article 46); outside that field they are given the force of a statute, and the point is still argued.
Legislative decree
The ordinary statute, enacted by Congress. It is the only rung where a tax is born.
Governmental agreement and decree
Acts of the President. The agreement develops a law without exceeding it; the decree exercises a power the Constitution grants him directly.
Ministerial agreement
An act of a single ministry, valid within what a higher norm entrusted to it.

The order measures the force of each form, not the importance of any one document. A ministerial agreement setting fees can weigh more on an operating cost than a law that was never given its regulations.

Its place in the register

of 630 dated instruments, ordered from the most recent to the oldest.

16 further instruments are held out of that order: the index gave them no usable date.

By class

executive agreements614
ministerial agreements19
executive decrees10
legislative decrees3

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The same edition

One further instrument detected in the edition of Apr 21, 2026.

Executive agreementAceptar y formalizar la donación a título gratuito a favor del Estado, libre de gravámenes, anotaciones y limitaciones que puedan afectar los derechos del donatario44-2026

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