Plan de Sánchez Massacre: 268 Guatemalan Campesinos Slain, July 18, 1982
Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
Date: July 18, 1982
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