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| 1999, Feb. 25 |
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| In a report independent of Bishop Gerardi's investigations, a Guatemalan truth commission attributed over 93 percent of the nation's civil rights abuses to the army and only 3 percent to paramilitary groups such as the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union. | 1 |
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| March 10 |
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| U.S. president Bill Clinton visited Guatemala, apologizing for the aid given by the U.S. to right-wing military governments during the past decade. | 2 |
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| Nov. 7 |
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| The right-wing Guatemalan Republican Front won a majority in the nation's congressional elections. | 3 |
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| Dec. 26 |
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| Alfonso Portillo Cabrera won the presidential election for the Guatemalan Republican Front and took office in January 2000. Portillo was victorious despite his campaign connections with former president Efrain Rios Montt, whose administration committed some of Guatemala's most severe human rights atrocities during the years of civil war. | 4 |
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