Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yawan aikata laifuka a Guatemala suna da yawa. An bayar da rahoton kimanin kisan kai 101 a kowane mako a cikin 2018. Kasashen da ke da mafi girman laifuka da tashin hankali a Amurka ta Tsakiya sune El Salvador da Honduras. A cikin 1990s Guatemala tana da birane huɗu da ke cikin manyan biranen Latin Amurka goma ta yawan kisan kai: Escuintla (165 a kowace 100,000), Izabal (127), Santa Rosa Cuilapa (111) da Guatemala City (101). In ji mujallar nan "New Yorker", a shekara ta 2009, "mutane farar hula da aka kashe a yankin da ake yaƙi a ƙasar Iraki sun fi waɗanda aka harbe, ko kuma aka yi wa dūka har suka mutu a ƙasar Guatemala", kuma kashi 97 cikin ɗari na kashe-kashen "ba a warware su ba". Yawancin tashin hankali na al'ummar Guatemala ya samo asali ne daga yakin basasa na tsawon shekaru 36. Duk da haka, ba wai kawai tashin hankali ya ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin yanayin bayan yakin basasa na kasar ba bayan yakin basasar Guatemala
, amma ya fadada zuwa mafi girma zamantakewa da kuma tattalin arziki siffofin tashin hankali.