List of Guatemalan Foreign Ministers

Appointed / assumed office	Surname	Remarks	in the government of	Leave post
Sep 7 1855	Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol	Son of Micaela Piñol y Muñoz and Juan Fermín, Encargado del Gobierno de la República, del 14 de abril de 1865 al 24 de mayo de 1865	José Rafael Carrera Turcios	May 24, 1865
May 24, 1865	Mariano de Aycinena y Piñol		Vicente Cerna Sandoval	June 1871
March 7, 1888	Salvador Barrutia Bustamante	General Encargado del Despacho Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de Fomento	Manuel Lisandro Barillas Bercián	June 16, 1888
June 16, 1888	Enrique Martínez-Sobral Marquez	* December 13, 1850 in San Martín Jilotepemie, departamento de Chimaltenango; † November 23, 1893 in Guatemala City	Manuel Lisandro Barillas Bercián	Nov 23, 1893
March 8, 1920	Luis Pedro Ramón Aguirre Matheu	* August 31, 1876 in Guatemala City ; † November 13, 1949 ibid	Carlos Herrera y Luna	Dec 10, 1921
Apr 2, 1945	Federico Guillermo Toriello Garrido	1st term (born November 11, 1911), relative of Jorge Toriello Garrido	Juan José Arévalo	July 24, 1945
July 24, 1945	Ismael González Arévalo	1st term executive (born September 23, 1906 in Taxisco Departamento Santa Rosa (Guatemala) ), relative of Juan José Arévalo , son of Ignacia Arévalo and Daniel González Sierra, married Fausta Bianchi (* Udine), children: Maxi, Evelina and Maria Elena studied law and social science in Guatemala and at the Sorbonne was admitted to the bar in 1933, 1931–1934: Secretary at the Consulate General in Paris, 1934–1939 Legation Secretary in Paris, 1939–1942 Legation Councilor in London, 1942–1945 Chargé d'Affaires in London, 1945 State Secretary in Foreign Ministry, 1946 general secretary of the executive branch, 1946 to 1948 ambassador in Lima, chairman of the Guatemalan delegation to the fifth general assembly of the United Nations	Juan José Arévalo	July 7, 1945
July 8, 1945	Federico Guillermo Toriello Garrido	2. Term of office	Juan José Arévalo	Dec. 4, 1945
Dec. 4, 1945	Ismael González Arévalo	2. Term of office executive	Juan José Arévalo	Dec 12, 1945
Dec 12, 1945	Federico Guillermo Toriello Garrido	3. Term of office	Juan José Arévalo	December 17, 1945
December 17, 1945	Eugenio Silva Peña	1st term of office (born October 5, 1896 in Guatemala City , † September 25, 1968 there)	Juan José Arévalo	Oct 16, 1946
Oct 16, 1946	Arturo Herbruger Asturias	1. Term of office executive	Juan José Arévalo	Dec 8, 1946
Dec 8, 1946	Eugenio Silva Peña	2. Term of office December 19, 1944 - January 1, 1945: List of Guatemalan Ambassadors to the United States	Juan José Arévalo	Aug 3, 1947
Aug 4, 1947	Carlos Leonidas Aoevedo Juarez	* August 18, 1910 in Jutiapa Moyuta / Dept .; † August 30, 1979 in Guatemala City	Juan José Arévalo	Aug 9, 1947
Aug 9, 1947	Arturo Herbruger Asturias	2. Term of office executive	Juan José Arévalo	29 Sep 1947
29 Sep 1947	Enrique Muñoz Meany	2nd term of office (* February 2, 1907 in Guatemala City, † July 22, 1951 in Paris), list of Guatemalan ambassadors in France	Juan José Arévalo	Sep 7 1948
8 Sep 1948	Carlos Hall Lloreda	executive	Juan José Arévalo	Dec 3, 1948
Dec 3, 1948	Enrique Muñoz Meany	3. Term of office	Juan José Arévalo	25 Sep 1949
26 Sep 1949	Ismael González Arévalo	3. Term of office	Juan José Arévalo	Aug 15, 1951
Aug 16, 1951	Manuel Galich	Manuel Francisco Galich López (born November 30, 1913 in Guatemala City, † August 30, 1984 in Havana )	Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán	June 23, 1952
June 24, 1952	José Raúl Osegueda Palala	* August 18, 1907 in Guatemala City; † 1995	Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán	Jan. 23, 1952
Jan. 24, 1952	Federico Guillermo Toriello Garrido	4. Term of office	Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán	Feb 23, 1952
Feb. 24, 1952	Ramón Cadena Hernández	executive	Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán	March 29, 1954
March 29, 1954	Federico Guillermo Toriello Garrido	5. Term of office	Carlos Castillo Armas	July 1, 1954
2nd July 1954	Juan Mauricio Dubois Valldeperas	* June 24, 1920 in San Salvador	Carlos Castillo Armas	July 6, 1954
July 6, 1954	Carlos Salazar Gatica	1st term (born January 31, 1893 in Guatemala City ), Attorney at United Fruit	Carlos Castillo Armas	July 16, 1954
July 16, 1954	Domingo Enrique Goicolea Villacorta	1st term executive (born June 15, 1920 in Guatemala City; † September 14, 1977 ibid), son of Enrique Goicolea y Sánchez (1887–1948)	Carlos Castillo Armas	July 23, 1954
July 23, 1954	Carlos Salazar Gatica	2. Term of office	Carlos Castillo Armas	Jan. 10, 1955
Jan. 11, 1955	Domingo Enrique Goicolea Villacorta	2. Term of office	Carlos Castillo Armas	March 28, 1956
Jan. 16, 1956	Ricardo Quiñones Lemus	First term of office (born April 26, 1894 in Chiquimulilla , † June 25, 1963 in Guatemala City ), ministro de Gobernación y de Relaciones Exteriores	Carlos Castillo Armas	July 1, 1956
March 29, 1956	Antonio Carrera Molina	executive	Carlos Castillo Armas	Oct. 4, 1956
Oct. 4, 1956	Ricardo Quiñones Lemus	2. Term of office	Carlos Castillo Armas	Dec 15, 1956
Dec 15, 1956	Jorge Skinner Klee Cantón	(Born June 21, 1923 in San Francisco ; † 2008), father of Jorge Skinner-Klée Arenales	Carlos Castillo Armas	Oct 23, 1957
Oct. 24, 1957	Adolfo Molina Orantes	1st term of office (* March 15, 1915 in Guatemala City ; † January 31, 1980 ibid)	Guillermo Flores Avendaño	March 2, 1958
March 3, 1958	Carlos García Bauer	1st term (born July 18, 1916 in Antigua Guatemala, † 2003)	Guillermo Flores Avendaño	Apr 2, 1958
Apr 2, 1958	Ricardo Sagastume Vidaurre	executive	José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes	May 12, 1958
May 12, 1958	Carlos García Bauer	2. Term of office	José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes	4th Sep 1958
4th Sep 1958	Francisco Linares Aranda	executive	José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes	4th Sep 1958
Sep 11 1958	Jesús Victor Unda Murillo	1st term of office (born April 17, 1902 in Guatemala City , † April 28, 1989 ibid)	José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes	March 24, 1961
March 24, 1961	Rodolfo Martínez Sobral	executive 19 December 1960 - 9 June 1961 Minister of the Government	José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes	May 9, 1961
May 9, 1961	Jesús Victor Unda Murillo	2. Term of office	José Miguel Ramón Ydigoras Fuentes	March 31, 1963
Apr 1, 1963	Alberto Herrarte González	* October 28, 1907 in Quetzaltenango ; † 2005	Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia	June 30, 1966
July 1, 1966	Emilio Arenales Catalan	* May 10, 1922 in Guatemala City ; † April 17, 1969 ibid	Julio César Méndez Montenegro	Apr 16, 1969
Apr 17, 1969	Gil Arturo González Solis		Julio César Méndez Montenegro	June 16, 1969
June 16, 1969	Alberto Fuentes Mohr	* November 22, 1927 in Quetzaltenango ; † January 25, 1979 in Guatemala City	Julio César Méndez Montenegro	June 30, 1970
July 1, 1970	Roberto Herrera Ibargüen	* October 11, 1921 in Guatemala City	Carlos Arana Osorio	5th Sep 1972
6 Sep 1972	Jorge Arenales Catalán	* April 19, 1914 in Guatemala City	Carlos Arana Osorio	June 30, 1974
July 1, 1974	Adolfo Molina Orantes	2. Term of office	Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García	July 1, 1978
2nd July 1978	Rafael Castillo Valdes	* January 15, 1928 in Cunén in the Quiché department	Fernando Romeo Lucas García	May 25, 1982
March 31, 1982	Alfonso Alonso Lima	* December 30, 1914 in Guatemala City ; † January 8, 1990 ibid	Efraín Ríos Montt	May 26, 1982
May 26, 1982	Eduardo Castillo Arriola	* January 15, 1928	Efraín Ríos Montt	23 Aug 1983
Aug 24, 1983	Fernando Andrade Diaz Durán	(* September 23, 1937 in Guatemala City ), since February 24, 2012 Ambassador to Mexico City	Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores	Jan. 13, 1986
Jan. 14, 1986	Mario Rafael Quiñónez Amezquita	* June 4, 1933 in Guatemala City	Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo	Aug 14, 1987
Jan 15, 1986	Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo	1st term of office (born July 2, 1942)	Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo	Feb. 14, 1987
Feb. 15, 1987	Mario Gildardo de Jesús Palencia Lainfiesta	* March 3, 1940 in Guatemala City	Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo	May 15, 1989
May 15, 1989	Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo	2. Term of office	Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo	Oct 14, 1989
Oct 15, 1989	Ariel Rivera Irías	* September 14, 1943	Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo	Jan. 13, 1991
Jan. 14, 1991	Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen		Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias	Oct 23, 1991
Oct 23, 1991	Gonzálo Menendez Park	* September 15, 1944 in Guatemala City	Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias	June 14, 1993
June 15, 1993	Arturo Fajardo Maldonado	* July 10, 1938	Ramiro de León Carpio	July 16, 1994
Jan. 20, 1994	Gladis Marithza Ruiz Sánchez de Vielman	* August 30, 1945	Ramiro de León Carpio	July 16, 1995
July 17, 1995	Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre	* January 6, 1936	Ramiro de León Carpio	Jan. 14, 1996
Jan. 14, 1996	Eduardo Stein	* October 20, 1945	Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen	Jan. 14, 2000
Jan. 14, 2000	Gabriel Orellana Rojas	* 1947	Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera	Dec 16, 2002
Dec 16, 2002	Edgar Armando Gutiérrez Girón	* 1960	Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera	Jan. 14, 2004
Jan. 14, 2004	Jorge Briz Abularach	* 1955	Óscar Berger Perdomo	July 25, 2006
July 25, 2006	Gert Rosenthal	* 1935	Óscar Berger Perdomo	Jan. 14, 2008
Jan. 14, 2008	Haroldo Rodas Melgar	* May 29, 1946 in Guatemala City	Álvaro Colom Caballeros	Jan. 14, 2012
Jan. 14, 2012	Harold Caballeros	* 1956	Otto Pérez Molina	Jan. 14, 2013
Jan 15, 2013	Fernando Carrera	* 1966	Otto Pérez Molina	16 Sep 2014
Sep 18 2014	Carlos Raúl Morales	* October 7, 1970 in Chiquimula	Otto Pérez Molina , Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre , Jimmy Morales	27 Aug 2017
27 Aug 2017	Sandra Jovel	* February 24, 1978 in Guatemala City	Jimmy Morales

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luis Pedro Ramón Aguirre Matheu ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Ismael González Arévalo
3. ^ Enrique Muñoz Meany
4. ↑ Carlos Hall Lloreda ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Ricardo Quiñones Lemus (PDF)
6. ^ Carlos García Bauer
7. ^ Peter Truhart: International Directory of Foreign Ministers, 1589–1989 . Supplement, 1945-1995. Volume 2. De Gruyter, 1996, Cabinet officers, 292 pp., 60 f.