Guatemala's investor-state arbitration track record
- The legal framework for foreign investment
- Arbitration and investor protection
- Audited
The dossier records eight proceedings with Guatemala as respondent. The State lost and paid in the electricity and railway cases under CAFTA-DR, RDC (US$14.6 million collected) and TECO (US$26,793,001 plus US$838,784 in the 2020 resubmission award), and won where the dispute was characterized as purely regulatory or contractual (Iberdrola I and II, IC Power). In the most recent mining case (Kappes, December 2025) the tribunal found breaches without granting damages, and GEB/TRECSA (more than US$400 million claimed) remains pending. The State's official documentary repository is MINECO's trade defense section. The dossier proposes tracking pending cases and cumulative awards as annual indicators from the UNCTAD ISDS Navigator and the ICSID case database.
The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.
Figures
- Investor-state proceedings recorded in the dossier
- 8
- Collected by RDC
- US$14.6 million
- TECO resubmission award
- US$26,793,001 + US$838,784
- Damages in Kappes
- US$0
Caveat
Sources
- MINECO — expedientes de controversias inversionista-Estado (defensa comercial)
- UNCTAD ISDS Navigator — Guatemala (país)
- CIADI — base de datos de casos
- Progressive Railroading — RDC obtains full award in claim against Guatemalan government
- CIADI — laudo de re-sometimiento TECO Guatemala Holdings v. Guatemala (ARB/10/23)
- IAReporter — ICSID tribunal declines to award damages in Kappes v. Guatemala (24-dic-2025)
Related records
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