{{Short description|Guatemalan politician}} '''Catarina Castor''' (c. 1980 – December 30, 2012) was a Guatemalan politician and a member of the Patriotic Party. A member of the Congress of Guatemala, Castor was the first woman from the Ixil people, an indigenous Mayan group, to be elected to the national legislature.<ref name=centralamerica>{{cite news|first=Mike|last=Allison|title=Ixil congresswoman dies in plane accident |url=http://centralamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/12/ixil-congresswoman-dies-in-plane.html#!/2012/12/ixil-congresswoman-dies-in-plane.html |work=Central American Politics (Professor of Political Science at the University of Scranton) |date=2012-12-31 |access-date=2013-01-06}}</ref> She had served in the Agricultural, Food Security, and Indigenous Peoples commissions within Congress.<ref name=centralamerica/>

Catarina Castor was killed in a plane crash due to mechanical problems in Nebaj, Quiché Department, Guatemala, on December 30, 2012, at the age of 32.<ref name=centralamerica/><ref name=fox/> She had been flying en route to Santa Cruz del Quiché for ceremony marking the sixteenth anniversary of the peace agreement which ended the Guatemalan Civil War.<ref name=centralamerica/><ref name=laht/> The Governor of Quiché Department, Heber Cabrera, survived the crash, but the pilot, Julio Giron, was also killed.<ref name=centralamerica/><ref name=fox>{{cite news|title=Guatemalan Congresswoman Dies in Plane Crash|url=http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/12/30/congresswoman-dies-in-plane-crash-in-guatemala/|work=Fox News Latino|date=2012-12-30|access-date=2013-01-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103035103/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/12/30/congresswoman-dies-in-plane-crash-in-guatemala/|archive-date=2013-01-03}}</ref><ref name=laht>{{cite news |title=Congresswoman Dies in Plane Crash in Guatemala |url=http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=659599&CategoryId=23558 |work=Latin American Herald Tribune |date=2012-12-30 |access-date=2013-01-06 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053749/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=659599&CategoryId=23558 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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