“A good part of the elite still think like ranchers whose economic model has not evolved,” said Renata Avila, a human rights lawyer and blogger in Guatemala City. “Their business model is ...

What we apparently weren’t aware of was that Indigenous Maya were being targeted back in Guatemala City, too — by the teenage children of Guatemala’s right-wing elite. "That is, the owners ...

He has spent much of the five-month period before his inauguration fighting off a judicial offensive from prosecutors aligned with Guatemala's ruling class and accused of corruption. "The slow ...

Bernardo Arévalo never had his inauguration as president of Guatemala secured this Sunday. For months, he faced a judicial onslaught attributed to the country’s powerful economic and political elite ...

As an elite stronghold in one of Latin America’s most unequal nations, it is also divisive. The City of Cayalá, in the background, is a gleaming, planned city on the outskirts of Guatemala’s ...