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A group of Salvadoran cadets train on parachute jumping and landing at Ilopango Military Base in San Salvador. They are all wearing helmets. Sitting on the ground is a group of cadets waiting their turn. U.S. advisors were providing training assistance to Salvadoran soldiers as part of the United States counterinsurgency training. The base, whose pilots were mostly trained in the United States, was run by General Juan Rafael Bustillo. The general was charged in 2017 for the El Mozote Massacre, where 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, the Ilopango Military Base became the center of CIA operations in support of Nicaraguan Contras. Un grupo de cadetes del ejército salvadoreño entrena en paracaidismo y aterrizaje en la base militar Ilopango en San Salvador. Los cadetes son entrenados y supervisados ??por asesores militares estadounidenses. Todos llevan casco. Sentados sobre el piso se observa a un grupo de cadetes esperando su turno. Los asesores de los Estados Unidos brindaron asistencia de capacitación a los soldados salvadoreños como parte de una operación de contrainsurgencia de los Estados Unidos. La base militar, cuyos pilotos fueron entrenados principalmente en los Estados Unidos, fue dirigida por 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 la manos del batallón Atlacatl durante la “Operación Rescate” en diciembre de 1981. Más de la mitad de las víctimas fueron niños y adolescentes. A partir de la primavera de 1983, la base militar Ilopango fue convertida en el centro de operaciones de la CIA en apoyo a las contras nicaragüenses.
El Salvador. Ejército Counterinsurgency El Salvador--History--1979-1992 United States--Foreign relations--El Salvador United States. Army Parachute troops
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