Order of the Quetzal

The Order of the Quetzal (Spanish: Orden del Quetzal) is Guatemala’s highest honor.

Order of the Quetzal
Orden del Quetzal
The star and the cordon of the order
(Grand Cross Rank)
Awarded by  Guatemala
TypeOrder
Awarded forartistic, civic, humanitarian, or scientific merit
StatusCurrently constituted
SovereignPresident of Guatemala
GradesChain
Grand Cross
Grand Officer
Commander
Officer
Knight

Ribbon bar for Grand Cross

Ribbon bar for Grand Officer

Ribbon bar for Commander

Ribbon bar for Officer

Ribbon bar for Knight
Collar of the order

History and award conditions

Established in 1936, it is bestowed by the Government of Guatemala. The award acknowledges officials of nations, organizations and other entities whose artistic, civic, humanitarian, or scientific works merit special recognition.[1]

Grades
  • Collar: Golden chain around the neck
  • Grand Cross: Badge hanging from a sash from right shoulder to left hip and star on the left chest
  • Grand Officer: Badge hanging from a sash around the neck and non-enamelled star[2] on the left chest.
  • Commander: Badge hanging from a sash around the neck
  • Officer: Badge hanging from a ribbon with rosette on the left chest
  • Knight: Badge hanging from a ribbon without rosette on the left chest. The badge is not golden.

Insignia

The badge is a ten-pointed cross with five branches and a medallion representing the coat of arms of Guatemala. The branches are light blue with a wide dark blue border. On the white ring is inscribed "AL MERITO GUATEMALA". The ribbon is light blue with thin white borders.

Recipients
Year Awarded to
1936Benito Mussolini
1949Edwin Jackson Kyle[3]
1956Chiang Kai-Shek
1959Golda Meir
1958Roberto González Goyri
1960Flavio Herrera
1960General Manuel Francisco Sosa Avila
1961Paul Carpenter Standley
1962François Durafour
1962Martha Bolaños de Prado
1963Johannes Marré
1968Augustus Ledyard Smith
1975J. Eric S. Thompson
1976Carmen Lind Pettersen[4]
1980Tatiana Proskouriakoff
1987Richard von Weizsäcker
1991Yuri Knorozov[5]
1992Fredrick Chien
1995Michel Gabaudan[6]
1995Diego Molina Flores
1998Teodoro Palacios Flores
2001Jacques Diouf[7]
2003René Lara
2004Michael D. Coe[8]
2004Jorge Briz
1957, 2009Alberto Fuentes Mohr[9]
2009Juan Carlos Plata
2009Fidel Castro[10]
2010Carlos Castresana[11]
2011Rodolfo Mac Donald[12]
2011Leonel Fernández[13]
2011Stephen D. Houston[14]
2011Julia Isabel Urrutia Castellanos
2013Ricardo Arjona
2013National Geographic Society[15]
2013Rotary Foundation[16]
2013Michael Wiley McCord, M.D.
2014Luis von Ahn[17]
2017Fernando Mazariegos, Edmond Mulet, Richard Hansen[18]
2017 Tsai Ing-wen [19]
?José Antonio Padilla Segura
?Julio María Sanguinetti
?Kjell Magne Bondevik
?Rafael Arévalo Martínez
?Julio Abril Valdez
?Augusto Pinochet
?Alfredo Stroessner
?Juan Domingo Perón
?Jorge Rafael Videla
?Sophia of Spain and Juan Carlos I of Spain
2020Vicente Gonzalez[20]

References
  1. "USAID Director Receives "Orden del Quetzal" - the Nation's Highest Honor". usaid.gov. June 6, 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  2. Grand officer's Star, World Medals Index - Guatemala: Order of the Quetzal
  4. Sandoval, María (February 2017). "Carmen en los jardines" [Carmen in the gardens] (in Spanish). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Relato. Archived from the original on 22 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  5. La guerra fría y el desciframiento de la escritura maya
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-01-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Acuerdo Gubernativo 459-2001.
  8. condecoración al arqueólogo Michael D. Coe Archived 2006-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Secretaría de la Paz (SEPAZ) (2009). "Alberto Fuentes Mohr". ACUERDO SOBRE EL FORTALECIMIENTO DEL PODER CIVIL Y FUNCIÓN DEL EJÉRCITO EN UNA SOCIEDAD DEMOCRÁTICA. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  10. Polémica por el otorgamiento de la Orden del Quetzal a Fidel Castro.
  11. Gobierno condecora al magistrado español Carlos Castresana con la Orden del Quetzal
  12. "Orden del Quetzal para el Doctor Rodolfo Mac Donald". Archived from the original on 2011-03-05. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
  13. Presidente de República Dominicana Leonel Fernández es condecorado con la Orden del Quetzal Archived 2012-07-02 at Archive.today
  14. Houston receives Guatemala's highest order
  15. ‘The Storm God enters the sky’: Archaeologists uncover a 1,400-year-old sculpture of Mayan gods in Guatemala, National Post
  16. "The Rotary Foundation receives Guatemala's highest honor". Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  17. Von Ahn recibe Orden del Quetzal en grado de Gran Comendador
  18. Prensa Libre, 10 Marzo 2017, p. 12,35
  19. "Morales decorates Taiwan's president, names her peace ambassador". noticias.alianzanews.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  20. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez receives Guatemala's highest honor by Ronnie Marley, CBS4 Valley Central, 20 January 2020
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