Atlácatl (Nahuatl Ātlācatl: ātl "water", tlācatl "human being"; died c. 1528) is reputed to have been the name of the last ruler of an indigenous state...

The Atlácatl Battalion (Spanish: Batallón Atlácatl) was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion of the Salvadoran Army created in 1981. It was implicated...

following clashes with guerrillas in the area. The Salvadoran Army's Atlácatl Battalion, under the orders of Domingo Monterrosa was responsible for the...

were killed by a Salvadoran Army unit known as the Atlácatl Battalion. On December 10, 1981, the Atlácatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote with...

to become the leader of the Atlácatl Battalion, composed of who considered to be El Salvador's elite soldiers. The Atlácatl Battalion was held responsible...

which 1,200 troops were mobilized, including members of the Atlácatl Battalion. Atlácatl was a rapid response counter-insurgency battalion organized at...

reports that more than 75,000 were killed. The Salvadoran Army's US-trained Atlácatl Battalion was responsible for the El Mozote massacre where more than 800...

members, and killed them with a point-blank shot to the head. Atlácatl Battalion (Batallón Atlácatl; BA) Anti-Communist Brigade of the East (Brigada Anticomunista...

of chiefdoms whom they encountered: Cuauhtémoc, Tecun Uman, Tenamaxtli, Atlácatl, Lempira, Nicarao (cacique), Tupac Amaru II Sachem, term of chiefdom of...

October 5. September 29 – Salvadoran Civil War: An army colonel of the Atlácatl Battalion is found guilty of the 1989 murders of six Jesuits. October 1...