Regional profile
Latin America & the Caribbean
Guatemala is part of Latin America & the Caribbean. Our editors write about the region as a whole — its story, topics and sources below cover all its countries.
View the whole region →The most urbanised region of the global south and among the most unequal. Latin America swings between electoral cycles with unusual speed, carries some of the world's highest homicide rates, and holds resources — lithium, copper, soy, the Amazon — that the energy transition has made strategic.
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