Virgilio Rodríguez Beteta

Virgilio Rodríguez Beteta (1885–1967) was a Guatemalan lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer.

Rodríguez-Beteta was born in Guatemala City on March 10, 1885, son of General Luis Beteta and Luz Rodriguez Laredo, descendant of the discoverer of California, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.

From his third marriage with Carmen Martínez Arboleda, he had another child, Luz Maria Rodriguez-Martinez Beteta, a journalist, Industrial Psychologist and mountaineer.

Rodríguez-Beteta lived for extended periods in Honduras, Switzerland, Spain, Chile and Colombia, working in senior diplomatic positions representing Guatemala.

His old age was devoted to historical research and political science and he publishing a series of books on a variety of topics in these disciplines.