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A. With metropolitan population of about 4.5 million people, Guatemala City is the capital and largest city of Guatemala. Belmopan is the capital of Guatemala's northeastern neighbor Belize; San Salvador is the capital of El Salvador to the southeast; and Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras to the east.
C. The Maya Civilization is noted for creating the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Most Mayans in Guatemala now live in poverty.
D. Many Mexican gangs from north of Guatemala's border have extended operations and gang warfare into Central America. Honduras has the world's highest murder rate while Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala rank fourth, fifth and sixth. The gangs are fighting to control the highly profitable business of shipping illegal drugs to the United States.
B. The U.S.-owned United Fruit Company controlled massive tracts of land in Guatemala, railroads, ports and had a government-backed, tax-free monopoly on the nation's lucrative banana trade. In 1954, the fruit company pressured the U.S. to plot the overthrow of Guatemala's elected president because it feared he threatened company interests.