“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 ...

In Guatemala City, we speak with Guatemalan human rights ... as the country’s ruling business and political elite took extraordinary measures to maintain its grip on power.

Guatemala has experienced an “unprecedented institutional deterioration” and a “disaster of corruption and impunity” due to that “corrupt criminal political elite” that clings to its privileges, said ...

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 ...

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 ...