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Latin American Economy & Business - August 2018 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Guatemala: Out of the car and onto the train
The urbanised area including Guatemala City and its immediate neighbourhoods is the most populated in Central America, with around 2.9m inhabitants. It is also heavily congested and polluted. The government has a plan to try to make things better: a north-south light railway called Metro Riel.
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