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| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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| Instituto Técnico de Agricultura massacre | November 13, 1971 | Bárcena, Villa Nueva, Guatemala Department | 2 | A 21-year-old Basilio Martínez Avila killed two people with a machete at an agricultural school near Guatemala City. He wounded 15 others before being overpowered by other students.[1][2][3] |
| Panzós massacre[4] | May 29, 1978 | Panzós | 30-60 | Residents of village of Panzós were killed by the army |
| Spanish Embassy Massacre | January 31, 1980 | Guatemala City | 36 | Indigenous peasant activists were burnt alive alongside former vice president Eduardo Cáceres among others |
| Río Negro Massacre | March 13, 1982 | Río Negro, Baja Verapaz | 177 | Women and children were abused and murdered |
| Plan de Sánchez massacre | July 18, 1982 | Plan de Sánchez, Baja Verapaz | 250 | Mostly women and children, and almost exclusively ethnic Achi Maya were abused and murdered |
| Dos Erres massacre | December 6, 1982 | Dos Erres, La Libertad, El Peten | 226 | Women, Children, Men, many had their heads bashed with hammers and thrown into a well. Others thrown in still alive. |
| Xamán massacre | 5 October 1995 | Chisec, Alta Verapaz Department | 11 | Members of the Guatemalan Army killed 11 people and injured 27 on a farm in Xamán[5][6][7] |
| Attack against a bus in Nicaragua | November 8, 2008 | Zacapa department | 16 | An attack by drug traffickers causes the death of 16 foreigners who were on a bus in the department of Zacapa in the eastern part of the country. The victims, 15 Nicaraguans and on 1 Dutchman, were riddled with bullets inside the bus and later burned along with it. According to subsequent investigations, the motive for the attack was the alleged existence of drugs on the bus.[8][9][10][11] |
| Los Cocos Massacre | 15 May 2011 | La Libertad, Petén Department | 27 | A group of drug traffickers from the Mexican cartel Los Zetas invade a farm in the department of Petén, in the north of the country, and kill 27 peasants by beheading.[12][13][14] |
| 2017 Roosevelt Hospital attack | 16 August 2017 | Guatemala City | 7 | While an MS-13 inmate was being transported, several armed men began shooting at the staff and prison guards who were carrying him. 5 minutes later, the gang members fled with the other member. The incident resulted in 7 dead and 12 injured[15][16][17][18][19][20] |
| Chiquix massacre | 18 December 2021[21] | Village of Chiquix, Nahualá, Sololá department | 13[22][23] | Murder of 13 people, including three children, in an ambush committed by armed men by Territorial Dispute.[24] |
