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The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
During the Salvadoran Civil War, on 16 November 1989, Salvadoran Army soldiers killed six Jesuits and two women, the caretaker's wife and daughter, at their residence on the campus of Central American University (known as UCA El Salvador) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Polaroid photos of the Jesuits' bullet-riddled bodies were on display in the ...
Alfredo Cristiani. The year 1989 was of key importance for the armed conflict in El Salvador.In February of that year, a far-right paramilitary organisation known as the "Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Anti-Communist Brigade" placed a bomb near the building of the Salvadoran Workers Union (Spanish: Unión de Trabajadores Salvadoreños). [3]
Football War (1969) El Salvador Honduras: Ceasefire. Status quo ante bellum; Ceasefire by OAS intervention; Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992) El Salvador: FMLN: Ceasefire. Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992; Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces; National and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian-overseen police created)
A former Salvadoran colonel was sentenced to 133 years in prison for the killings of five Jesuit priests more than three decades ago, a court in Spain ruled Friday. Spain’s National Court in ...
Salvadoran Civil War: El Salvador: FMLN RN: 1979 1989 Soviet–Afghan War. Part of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) Peshawar Seven Tehran Eight AMFFF. Supported by: United States United Kingdom Canada Australia West Germany France Italy Greece Japan South Korea Taiwan Pakistan Iran Arab World Turkey Soviet Union Afghanistan Supported by:
The following are lists of massacres that have occurred in El Salvador (numbers may be approximate). There were some 27 separate documented civilian massacres [1] [2] [3] in the Salvadoran Civil War era alone (1979–1989), in total the war directly claimed 70,000 to 80,000 lives.
[40] [50] [51] El Salvador declared war on Japan on 8 December and then later Germany and Italy on 12 December. [50] The government arrested German, Italian, and Japanese nationals and seized their land. [52] El Salvador never provided soldiers to directly fight in the war but it did send workers to maintain the Panama Canal. [53]