1981 in Guatemala

Incumbents

• President: Fernando Romeo Lucas García
• Vice President: Óscar Mendoza Azurdia

  Events

April

• April 21 - Soldiers of the Army of Guatemala entered the village of Acul, near Santa Maria Nebaj in the Guatemalan highlands, and executed most of the adult men for suspected collaboration with leftist guerillas. "Within two weeks," an investigator for the government noted in 1997, "the village was empty, and the army burned every house and field of corn in Acul". The village was rebuilt two years later.