Whereas Indigenous people in Guatemala comprise nearly 44 percent of the country’s population, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and encompass 24 ethnic groups, including the Maya, Garifuna, and Xinka peoples; Whereas, during Guatemala’s brutal 36-year civil war, the military dictatorships intentionally targeted the Indigenous population, with Mayans accounting for 83 percent of the approximately 200,000 citizens killed during the war, according to the Commission for Historical Clarification, and stole Indigenous communities’ land and resources; Whereas the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala recognizes the rights of Indigenous peoples and defines Guatemala as a multicultural society, and the Government has recognized Indigenous groups’ rights in the Peace Agreements that ended the civil war and ratified international agreements on the rights of Indigenous peoples; Whereas, despite these formal recognitions, a history of intentional underinvestment, systemic discrimination, and exclusion has led to stark social, health, educational, economic, and political disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Guatemalans, with inequities even worse for Indigenous women; Whereas large inequities continue to exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Guatemalans, including the Guatemalan Government investing 0.4 USD per day in each Indigenous person compared to 0.9 USD per day in each non-Indigenous person, poverty affecting 75 percent of Indigenous people compared to 36 percent of non-Indigenous people, chronic malnutrition affecting 58 percent of Indigenous people compared to 38 percent of non-Indigenous people, and Indigenous people comprising less than 15 percent of high-ranking political office positions, according to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs