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American military advisor Colonel John D. Waghelstein smokes a cigar while standing next to two U.S. military advisors at Ilopango Military Base in San Salvador. Colonel Waghelstein was an Army counterinsurgency expert and commander of a group of US military advisers in El Salvador. The military base, whose pilots were mostly trained in the United States, was commanded by General Juan Rafael Bustillo. The general was charged in 2017 for the El Mozote Massacre, when approximately 1,000 people were executed by the Atlacatl Battalion during “Operation Rescate” in December 1981. More than half of the victims were children and adolescents. Starting in Spring 1983, Ilopango Military Base became the center of CIA operations in support the Nicaraguan Contras. El asesor militar estadounidense, el coronel John D. Waghelstein fuma mientras está parado junto a dos asesores militares de los EE. UU. En la base militar Ilopango en San Salvador. El Coronel Waghelstein era un experto en contrainsurgencia del Ejército y comandante de un grupo de asesores militares estadounidenses en El Salvador. La base militar, cuyos pilotos fueron entrenados principalmente en los Estados Unidos, fue dirigida por el general Juan Rafael Bustillo. El general fue acusado en el 2017 de la Masacre de El Mozote, donde aproximadamente 1.000 personas fueron ejecutadas por el Batallón Atlacatl durante la “Operación Rescate” en diciembre de 1981. Más de la mitad de las víctimas eran niños y adolescentes. A partir de la primavera de 1983, la base militar Ilopango se convirtió en el centro de operaciones de la CIA estadounidense en apoyo a la contra nicaragüense.
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