Why does Guatemala need an embassy in Israel anyway?

I spoke with the Associated Press this afternoon about Guatemala's decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem. As I told Peter Orsi, President Morales and many evangelical Guatemalans were in favor of such a move. They have been for quite some time. However, Guatemalan would never have taken the first step. President Trump and the US had to move first.

“I think it’s driven much more by domestic factors in Guatemala, the right-wing evangelical support for both Morales and their support for the state of Israel,” said Michael Allison, a political scientist specializing in Central America at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.

“Morales and many in the Guatemalan political and economic elite were in favor of moving their embassy,” Allison said. “They would not have done it without the U.S. doing it first, but it is not as if they were doing something that went against what they wanted to do.”

Will Guatemala get anything in return from the US? Undocumented Guatemalan citizens do not have TPS and it is difficult to imagine that they will get it anytime soon, even though I made that argument over five years ago! I can't see the Trump administration asking immigration authorities to go easy on Guatemalans, even if he found a way to do that legally.

If anything, I imagine that President Morales and his lobbyists want help undermining CICIG and possibly lifting some of the restrictions on US military assistance to the country.