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| 1994, Jan |
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| The Guatemalan government resumed peace talks with leftist rebels aimed at ending the 33-year-old civil war. They were the first talks since Ramiro de León Carpio assumed the presidency. | 1 |
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| March 29 |
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| The Guatemalan government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union (an umbrella organization for four leftist guerrilla groups) reached a breakthrough agreement, including a human rights accord and an agenda for ending the civil war by the end of 1994. The key obstacle to the accord had been the government's refusal to allow a full human rights probe, but officials agreed to allow an investigation by a United Nations verification commission. | 2 |
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| June 23 |
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| A mass grave containing the charred remains of about 1,000 men, women, and children was unearthed by heavy rains in Quiche Province. The remains were widely assumed to be those of Indian peasants killed in early 1980s by the government-sponsored counterinsurgency program. | 3 |
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