n dir="ltr">According to figures from the Banco de Guatemala, in January and February of 2018 the country received $1.265 million in the form of remittances, an amount that exceeds by 5% the $1.202 billion registered in the first two months of 2017. 

Between the first two months of 2011 and 2018 remittance revenues practically doubled, as the figures went up from $587 million in 2011 to $1.264 billion in 2018. 

This form of income in the second month of this year totaled $630 million, an amount that exceeded the average value of remittances received during the months of February over the last five years, which was $523 million. 

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