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A group of Salvadoran soldiers sit on the ground at the Ilopango air base, El Salvador. The twelve soldiers have numbers painted on their helmets. At the military base, U.S. advisors were assigned to train and advise the El Salvadoran Armed Forces in their fight against the guerrillas. The Ilopango air base, whose pilots were mostly trained in the United States, was run by Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo (the general was charged in 2017 for the El Mozote massacre, when approximately 1,000 people were executed by the Salvadoran armed forces at the hands of the Atlacatl Battalion during "Operation Rescate" in December 1981. More than half of the victims were children and adolescents). Starting in Spring 1983, the Ilopango air base became the center of C.I.A. operations to supplying the Nicaraguan Contras. Un grupo de soldados salvadoreños se sientan en el suelo en la base aérea de Ilopango, El Salvador. Los doce soldados tienen números pintados en sus cascos. En la base militar, se asignaron asesores estadounidenses. Ellos fueron asignados para entrenar y asesorar a las Fuerzas Armadas de El Salvador en su lucha contra las guerrillas. En la base aérea de Ilopango, cuyos pilotos fueron entrenados; principalmente, en los Estados Unidos y fue dirigida por el general Juan Rafael Bustillo (el general fue acusado en 2017 de la masacre de El Mozote, cuando aproximadamente 1.000 personas fueron ejecutadas por las fuerzas armadas salvadoreñas en diciembre de 1981 . Más de la mitad de las víctimas eran niños y adolescentes). A partir de la primavera de 1983, la base aérea de Ilopango se convirtió en el centro de operaciones de la C.I.A. para abastecer a la contra nicaragüense.
Civil War El Salvador Documentary photographs Soldiers El Salvador. Ejército El Salvador--History--1979-1992 El Salvador--Politics and Government--1979-1992 Military uniforms Air bases Military assistance, American Military education Military training camps
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