1985 Zona Rosa attacks

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The Zona Rosa attack was a guerrilla attack that took place in the Zona Rosa restaurant area of San Salvador, El Salvador at approximately 21:30 on June 19, 1985, during the Salvadoran Civil War. The attack was conducted by gunmen dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, and in total twelve people were killed: four United States Marines, two United States businessmen, a Guatemalan, a Chilean, and four Salvadorans. A left-wing guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, and its armed wing, the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commando claimed responsibility for the attack.^{[citation needed]}

In July 1985, as part of the Combat Terrorism Act, the United States offered a reward of US$100,000 for information leading to the conviction of the attackers. By September 1985, the Salvadoran government had arrested four men; one of them was Américo Mauro Araujo, a high-ranking Salvadoran Communist Party official. Seven others who were involved in the attack, however, were never apprehended.^[1]

See also

• El Mozote massacre
• Albert Schaufelberger

References

External links

• http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9609/zr1.htm
• http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9609/zr5.htm
• http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=1130
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080110052757/http://www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/reports/el_salvador/tc_es_03151993_casesE2ab.html