Fritz García Gallont (born 9 August 1955) is a

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

n politician. He is a member of the Unionist Party. He served as Minister of Communications under President

Álvaro Arzú Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen (; 14 March 1946 – 27 April 2018) was a Guatemalan politician and businessman who served as the 44th president of Guatemala from 1996 to 2000, as well as several terms as Mayor of Guatemala City. The main achi ...

.Wayne Leighton, Carlos Sabino, ''Privatization of Telecommunications in Guatemala: A Tale Worth Telling'', Universidad Francisco Marroquín: The Antigua Forum, 2013, p. 55Benedicte Bull, ''Aid, Power, And Privatization: The Politics of Telecommunication Reform in Central America'', Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, p. 7

/ref> He served as Mayor of

Guatemala City Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Depa ...

from 2000 to 2004.J. T. Way, ''The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala'', Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2012, p. 17

/ref> In 2003, his bid for the presidency was unsuccessful. He is the vice president of the Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce.

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