1985 Zona Rosa attacks

{{Short description|1985 mass shooting of a restaurant in San Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War}}

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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|date=May 2024}}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?node=world/issues/terrordata&pagename=world/terror&appstat=detail&resulttype=attack&entityId=139&cache12=16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020209040535/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?appstat=detail&cache12=16&entityId=139&node=world%2Fissues%2Fterrordata&pagename=world%2Fterror&resulttype=attack |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-02-09 |title=Zona Rosa Gun Attack in San Salvador, El Salvador |work=Washington Post.com }}