Monterrosa With The Atlacatl Battalion In Tenancingo
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The commanding officer of the Atlacatl Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Domingo Monterrosa, right, questions a local resident, left, as soldiers advance during a military operation in pursuit of guerrillas from the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, in Tenancingo, El Salvador, September 27, 1983. Monterrosa trained at the notorious School of the Americas and assumed command of the Atlacatl Battalion, one of the Salvadoran rapid reaction counterinsurgency battalions coordinated and funded by the United States. The Atlacatl Battalion under Monterrosa's authority was responsible for the infamous El Mozote massacre of December 1981, which remains the largest single massacre in recent Latin American history.
