Atlácatl Battalion
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The Atlácatl Battalion was one of 14 Batallones de Infantería de Reacción Inmediata of the Salvadoran Army created in the 1980s. Atlácatl was raised in 1981 and disbanded in 1992. It was implicated in
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Atlacatl Battalion insignia
Salvadoran Civil War
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The Salvadoran Civil War was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador that was backed by the United States, against the Farabundo Martí National Lib
Atlácatl Battalion
…Salvadoran Army created in the 1980s. Atlácatl was raised in 1981 and disbanded in 1992. It was implicated in some of the most infamous massacres of the Salvadoran Civil War. The Salvadoran Civil War began on 15 October 1979 with the overthrow of President Carlos Humberto Romero. The military established the Revolutionary…
Clockwise from top right: two Salvadorans carrying a casualty of war, an anti-war protest in Chicago, Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a memorial to the El Mozote massacre, ERP fighters in Perquín
Death squad victims in San Salvador, (c. 1981)
Archbishop Óscar Romero
Attendees to Monsignor Romero's funeral run after hearing gunshots in the middle of the crowd, in Plaza Barrios, on Sunday, March 30, 1980.