These Guatemalan men are usually short, maybe five foot at their tallest.
I was surrounded by four such men, between four and five foot in height, after they crashed into me and my girlfriend in Guatemala City. I wanted to fight them, but my girlfriend’s dad (called on the cell phone), who was a lawyer, said the police were corrupt and to pay them off.
I grudgingly gave them $20 and they left.
You did the prudent thing.