LatinNews Daily - 20 August 2025

*Guatemala’s leading private sector lobby Comité Coordinador de Asociaciones Agrícolas, Comerciales, Industriales y Financieras (Cacif), along with other business organisations like Guatemala’s exporters’ association (Agexport), have come out against a strike by workers at Santo Tomás de Castilla, a port in Izabal department on the Atlantic coast, which began on 18 August. An Agexport statement notes that over 2,700 containers at the port, which handles 62% of Guatemala’s trade, have not been attended to as a result of the strike which it says is over “administrative measures implemented by the port authorities to improve efficiency”. Fanny De Estrada, Agexport’s director of institutional relations, was cited by the media as estimating that the strike could result in daily losses of some US$10m.

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