A weekly brief from a Guatemalan data desk

Living in Guatemala Weekly is a short, data-first email. We maintain live datasets on this site — exchange rates, gas prices, real-estate listings, earthquakes, road disruptions — and once a week the newsletter tells you what actually moved and what it means. Written by a Guatemalan who left for the USA and came back.

What’s in every issue

  • One lead worth your time — often findings from our datasets that we never publish on the site. Subscribers saw our Antigua property analysis (405 listings, matched month over month) before anyone else.
  • The money minute — the Banguat rate and whether it actually moved, where remittances pay best, what gas costs.
  • Coming up — the deadlines, holidays, and events in the next two weeks that affect your plans.
  • One number from the data desk — a single figure that tells a bigger story.

When something big happens, we don’t wait

Two of our issues so far were event editions: the M7.3 earthquake (what it meant, plus the sticker deadline it collided with) and the week Guatemala shook 341 times. When there’s a major quake, an eruption, or road closures that matter, you get an extra issue explaining what’s actually going on — sourced, not speculation.

Read a real issue first

Don’t take our word for it — here’s the latest issue, exactly as subscribers received it:

A quetzal buys 8× more land in San Lucas than in Antigua →

The fine print, plainly

Free. Weekly, with rare extras when news demands it. Unsubscribe in one click, any time. We never sell or share your email. If a week is thin, we send a short issue — never filler.

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