Arambala, Morazán, El Salvador — Central America (West Coast)
El Mozote Children's Memorial
Jardín de Reflexión Los Inocentes
Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, April 12, 2015
1. El Mozote Children's Memorial Marker
El Mozote Nunca Mas
In this place in 1992 were recovered the remains of 146 people, 140 of them under 12 years old. All of them now are buried in the monument.
El Mozote Never Again
Erected 1991.
Topics. This historical marker and memorial is listed in this topic list: Wars, Non-US. A significant historical date for this entry is May 31, 1992.
Location. 13° 53.906′ N, 88° 6.884′ W. Marker is in Arambala, Morazán. It is on an unnamed street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Arambala, Morazán 03202, El Salvador. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in North America, specifically in Central America, in Mesoamerica, on the Ring of Fire, on the Pacific Rim, and in the Western Hemisphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain and also a Spanish colony.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 23 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: El Mozote (within shouting distance of
this page online
Also see . . . The Truth of El Mozote. Mark Danner provides his 1993 in-depth New Yorker article on the massacre: ...By early 1992, when a peace agreement between the government and the guerrillas was finally signed, Americans had spent more than four billion dollars funding a civil war that had lasted twelve years and left seventy-five thousand Salvadorans dead. By then, of course, the bitter fight over El Mozote had largely been forgotten; Washington had turned its gaze to other places and other things. For most Americans, El Salvador had long since slipped back into obscurity. But El Mozote may well have been the largest massacre in modern Latin-American history. That in the United States it came to be known, that it was exposed to the light and then allowed to fall back into the dark, makes the story of El Mozote — how it came to happen and how it came to be denied — a central parable of the Cold War....
Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, April 12, 2015
2. Wide view of El Mozote Children's Memorial Marker
The building in the background is the reconstructed Catholic church of El Mozote. Tiles with the names of the children found here are located along the base of the church.
Credits. This page was last revised on May 5, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 11, 2015, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 833 times since then and 30 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 11, 2015, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
