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Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing

Government ministry of Guatemala

Layered newspapers, civic records and oral-history reels arranged as chronological evidence
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ5647906 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure, and Housing (Spanish: Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y Vivienda or CIV) is a government ministry of Guatemala, headquartered in Zone 13 of Guatemala City. The current minister is Félix Alvarado.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing” is government ministry of Guatemala. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ministry, Communications and Infrastructure, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 35-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1871-08-24. For this dossier, Ministry, Communications and Infrastructure is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “government ministry of Guatemala” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5647906. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing primary sources, Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing archive and Ministry research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.