US Sponsored State Terror in El Salvador
Skip links Skip to Content LIVE OPINION OPINION, Opinions | Human Rights Remembering US-backed state terror in El Salvador Justice and accountability for the El Mozote massacre and other crimes of US-backed Salvadoran forces remain elusive. Belen Fernandez Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Published On 11 Dec 2021 11 Dec 2021 Silhouettes representing the victims of the El Mozote massacre are seen outside the installations of El Salvador's Air Force as the military rejected a request by a judge to access files on the massacre, in Ilopango, El Salvador on October 12, 2020 [File: Reuters/Jose Cabezas] Forty years ago, on December 11, 1981, one of the worst massacres in modern Latin American history commenced in El Salvador, in the village of El Mozote and its environs. Some 1,000 civilians, most of them women and children, were slaughtered over a period of several days by the Salvadoran military’s elite Atlacatl Battalion, which had been trained , funded, and equipped by t
