Where does Guatemala beat its regional competitors as an investment destination?

On the benchmark data, Guatemala wins on: (1) labor scale, a labor force of 7.5 million, the largest on the isthmus, the only neighbor able to staff operations employing tens of thousands (BPO already employs 55,000);… (2) macro and credit, Ba1/BB+/BB,… equal to or better than any Central American neighbor,… debt/GDP of 26.8% and a rising trajectory while Mexico slides; (3) the cheapest industrial electricity in SIEPAC, in the EEGSA area (ECLAC, June 2025), with a wholesale market open to users above 100 kW; (4) geography, a land border with Mexico, a customs union with Honduras and El Salvador in accession, two coasts and three container ports; (5) a headline corporate income tax of 25%, the lowest in the table, which weighs more as Pillar 2 devalues exemptions.