Guatemala and Mexico are two neighboring countries who share a common cultural history from the Maya civilization and both nations were colonized by the Spanish empire.

[1] In 1954, reformist Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz was ousted in an American backed coup d'état and replaced by a military junta; because of his disputes and opposition against the United Fruit Company.

[1] In December 1958, both nations were very close to declaring war on each other after an incident involving the Guatemalan navy firing upon Mexican fishing boats off the coast of Guatemala and killing three fisherman and wounding fourteen others.

[4] Each year, thousands of Guatemalan migrants enter Mexico through its unsecured border and mainly transit through the country on their way to the United States.

There are also several thousand Guatemalan citizens who cross the border on a daily basis to work in Mexico and return to Guatemala at the end of the day.

[6] In August 2018, then Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, the first Head of Government with whom he held a meeting with after winning the elections.

[7] In 2018, several thousands Guatemalans formed part of the Central American migrant caravans and traversed all of Mexico to the northern city of Tijuana to request asylum in the United States.

[11] In May 2022, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador paid an official visit to Guatemala, the first stop of his tour to Central America.

[32] Guatemala's main exports to Mexico include: sugar cane, palm oil, clothing articles, natural rubber, seeds, seafood, and chemical based products.