Question concerning the Atlacatl Battalion-Salvadoran Army

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Does anyone have any additional information on this Salvadoran Battalion? Below is what I have been
able to gather so far:

Atlacatl Battalion was a rapid-response unit created for counter-insurgency warfare and trained and
equipped by the United States. The Atlacatl was the showpiece unit of the U.S.-inspired reorganization
of the Salvadoran military during the early 1980s. Commanded by Col. Domingo Monterrosa, Atlacatl was
the headline-grabbing unit of the army. Their members were trained at the School of the America's which
at that time was located in the Panama Canal Zone.
The Battalion carried out some of the most notorious massacres of the civil war, including the worst
massacre in modern Latin American history at El Mozote. Atlacatl also carried out the November 1989
massacre of six Jesuits at the University of Central America. The Atlacatl Battalion was disbanded under
the terms of the 1992 peace treaty.

Regards,
Hist2004

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Does anyone have any additional information on this Salvadoran Battalion? Below is what I have been
able to gather so far:

Atlacatl Battalion was a rapid-response unit created for counter-insurgency warfare and trained and
equipped by the United States. The Atlacatl was the showpiece unit of the U.S.-inspired reorganization
of the Salvadoran military during the early 1980s. Commanded by Col. Domingo Monterrosa, Atlacatl was
the headline-grabbing unit of the army. Their members were trained at the School of the America's which
at that time was located in the Panama Canal Zone.
The Battalion carried out some of the most notorious massacres of the civil war, including the worst
massacre in modern Latin American history at El Mozote. Atlacatl also carried out the November 1989
massacre of six Jesuits at the University of Central America. The Atlacatl Battalion was disbanded under
the terms of the 1992 peace treaty.

Regards,
Hist2004
They only thing I can add about Atlacatl battallion is that they weren´t trained in Panama but in the States the whole battalion, in a famous big base in the east coast whose name I don´t remember now, since the highest officer to the last soldiers. Btw, Atlacatle was the name of an indian cacique(chief) who resisted fiercely against spanish 4 centuries ago. They were an elite unit very well trained but they commited war crimes against civilian population specially, and the controversy is that it´s said they were trained by USA to terrify in that way population and so stopping the refuge of guerrilleros. In School of Americas were trained officers of all Latinoamerica focusing more in doctrine and intelligence warfare, and in techniques of interrogation, torture so to speak.
But regarding the massacre of jesuits inside their residence in the University, I think the battalion wasn´t guilty, except some officers, but para-military civilians of the Arena Party, directed by Roberto D´Abuisson.D´Abuisson always was supported by CIA with cash and weapons, and he was truly like a nazi but he defined himself as a liberal defending his people against communism. D´Abuisson had threatened before the jesuits saying that they were communists and supported the rebels, which wasn´t exact, and in fact targetted them. They killed together with the jesuits a woman, the jesuits cook, and her little daughter. Policemen linked to D´Abuisson para-militias were responsable too of raping first and killing after that 3 nuns and blaming of that to guerrilla circa 1980, even that the nuns were threatened like the jesuits for being related with guerrilleros, which was false too. Aftermore, Roberto D´Abuisson was responsable of the assasination of bishop Romero in the altar of San Salvador cathedral when he was saying the mass. Some catholic branches were targeted by CIA in the 80 across centroamerica, because they were considered not friends to the USA interest in the area. Many were killed even if they were americans, like the nuns. In the case of the jesuits, who were professors at the university, 5 of the 6 killed were spanish, basques, all of them were former fellows of my professors at college. They weren´t communists nor terrorists, they only didn´t support dictatorship in El Salvador and denounced the massacres of civilians. The war in El Salvador was very hard, about 70.000 thousands deads in a little country, but contrary to Colombia, for example, guerrilla in El Salvador never commited crimes against civilians, they only fought in the country and openly against the army, and they did it as well as the Atlactl battalion, btw.

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Thank you for the additional information.

Regards,
Hist2004