08/31/2026
This weekend we were honored to host Licenciado Miguel Álvarez Arévalo at Café Kacao. 🇬🇹
Licenciado Álvarez Arévalo is the Cronista de la Ciudad de Guatemala / the official Chronicler of Guatemala City. It is a lifetime appointment, granted by the Metropolitan Municipal Council in 1992, and it makes him the keeper of the capital’s memory: its streets, its churches, its processions, its people.
In 2013 he received the Orden Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural, the national decoration for cultural heritage. He directs Guatemala’s National Museum of History and has written more than thirty books about our country.
He has spent fifty years making sure Guatemala remembers itself. After the earthquake of 1976, while the capital was still in ruins, he went into the rubble with other historians and pulled out folkloric pieces by hand, saving parts of our culture that would have been lost with the debris.
To have him at our table, sharing our coffee and our food, was a moment we will not forget.
Gracias, Licenciado Álvarez Arévalo. 🇬🇹
