Background
RODRÍGUEZ BETETA, Virgilio was born on March 10, 1885 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
RODRÍGUEZ BETETA, Virgilio was born on March 10, 1885 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Professor of Hispanic American history in the University of Guatemala. For many years deputy to the National Legislature. President of various legislative committees on social questions.
Delegate to the Pan-American Financial Congresses of Washington, D.C., 1915 and 1920. Delegate to various international historical, legislative, etc., gatherings. Minister Plenipotentiary to Honduras, 1926-1928.
Exiled from Guatemala for political reasons, 1928. Subsequently lectured in the University of Missouri, United States.A. Secretary to the President of the Republic (to 1931).
Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain since 1931. Journalistic Career: Founder of the Prensa Centroamericana Asociada, an agency for the exchange of news between Central American countries. Honorary president of the International Congress of Journalists, San Francisco, California, 1915.
Vice-president of the Executive Committee of the Press Congress of the World. Formerly representative in Central America of the United Press Association of New York. Director of the Diario de Centro América of Guatemala City, dean of the Central American press.
Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala (cofounder with Sr. Adrián Recinos); Sociedad Geográfica Nacional. Ateneo Teosófico of Madrid.