In December of 1981, the Atlacatl battalion of the Salvadorean armed forces murdered approximately eight hundred civilians, many of them women and children. The Mozote Massacre, 25 Years Later is a photographic essay on the exhumation and identification of the victims of the Mozote massacre in El Salvador.

The battle that ensued in the 1980s both in El Salvador and the United States over what happened in El Mozote helped to shape the modus operandi of the human rights movement from then on. There was an increased recognition of the importance of careful documentation, which became crucial to investigating other cases of serious violations of the laws of war throughout Latin America and beyond.

This essay documents the scientific process by which the Argentine Forensic Anthropology team, the Legal Service of the Archbishopric of San Salvador and the victims' relatives identified the persons killed in the massacre and returned their remains to their families.

This process, along with the effort to reconstruct the historical context of the massacre, is an essential step in healing the wounds resulting from the Salvadorean civil war and achieving reconciliation through a social contract in these communities.