Guatemala being constantly involved in messing with the US through refugee crisis shouldn’t really surprise anyone.
From the 60’s through 80’s, Guat had already been known as one of several Soviet Politburo/Kremlin vacation and warm climate medical recovery enclaves.
Then, in 1991, most members of the Soviet Politburo and many military brass became the Russian Parliament, the Soviet Union became the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), excluding Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
CIS Headquarters has since remained between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
But as with other “Latin American” nations, Moscow’s influence grew even stronger and dynamic in Guatemala than it had been during the “formal cold war”.
From the 90’s to the present, as with Nicaragua and Venezuela, Moscow’s influence in Guatemala has become vastly more militaristic, formal, and organized. GRU and FSB (KGB) nearly dominate Guatemala, even while yet somewhat quiet.
In the past 15 months, (twice), Putin has overtly threatened to trigger “Syrian style” and “Latin American style” mass refugee crisis into Southern Europe (Italy and France), through Libya/Tripoli, IF the EU and NATO didn’t sign off on Libya, Tripoli, Egypt, and the Eastern Med.
GRU and FSB activity permeates Guatemala (and others).
As with Ukraine, chaos and targeted corruption are used to weaken and neutralize governments, and to manipulate a specific outcome.
Refugee organization also creates pressure on other smaller nations across the Western Hemisphere.
This is very much the M.O.
All of that does not exclude US based leftist orgs, agencies, NGO’s, and billionaire’s from taking part in a big way.
The Venezuelan Government/Intelligence Services were implicated in organizing some of the illegal immigrant caravans last year, through Leftist front groups.