2015年危地马拉总统佩雷斯卷入关税腐败案，危地马拉议会剥夺了总统佩雷斯的豁免权。佩雷斯辞去总统职务后旋即被捕。贪腐事件将政治结构的局外人吉米·莫拉莱斯推向前台；第二轮决胜投票中，他代表国家融合阵线赢得大选。但融合阵线作为议会少数派，政治力量碎片化倾向更为凸显。2015年，危地马拉经济复苏走势较为稳定，但受中美洲整体形势影响，GDP增长率下降至3.9%。截至佩雷斯总统任期结束时，62.4%的人口处于中等贫困，社会不平等现状仍未好转。该国与伯利兹领土争端继续搁置，危地马拉与北方邻国墨西哥在边境共同治理和区域能源一体化方面的合作有所推进。
In 2015，ahead of the election，Guatemalan President Pérez Molina was involved in the La Linea corruption case with other high-ranking officials. Consequently，President Pérez was stripped of his immunity by the Guatemalan Parliament. He was arrested right after his resignation. The majority of voters supported the “outsider” Jimmy Morales，who won the run-off election as the FCN’s presidential candidate. His success was viewed as a sign of the distrust of many Guatemalan towards traditional political elites. Since the Renewed Democratic Liberty became the largest party in the Congress，Guatemala is facing more radical political fragmentation. Although the tendency of economic recovery is quite stable，the GDP growth rate declined to 3.9%，which was mainly influenced by the overall situation in Central America. Since at the end of President Pérez’s term，62.4% of the population lived in moderate poverty，the condition of social inequality has not improved. In 2015，Guatemala’s longstanding territorial dispute against Belize stagnated，while the Guatemalan government succeeded in promoting cooperation with Mexico on regional energy integration and cross-border governance issues.
