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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]
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]
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:
Second Totoposte War (1903) El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan Exiles Guatemala: Stalemate. Status quo ante bellum; Third Totoposte War (1906) El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan Exiles Guatemala: Stalemate: War of 1907 (1907) El Salvador Nicaragua Salvadoran Exiles American Filibusters Honduras: Victory. Status quo ante bellum; World War II (1941–1945)
Afghan Civil War (1989–1992), February 15, 1989 – April 30, 1992. The continuing part of the civil war that started in the 1978 Saur Revolution after the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving the Afghan communist government to fend for itself against the Mujahideen months later part of / also called Afghanistan conflict (1978 ...
The Salvadoran Civil War began on October 15, 1979, with the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état which overthrew President Carlos Humberto Romero. [8] [9] The coup had covert support from the United States, who wished to prevent Romero's government from falling to left-wing militant groups in the country, the same fate as did the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in Nicaragua.
Spain’s National Court in Madrid ruled that Inocente Orlando Montano, an ex-colonel who served as El Salvador’s vice minister for public security during the country’s 1979-1992 civil war ...
[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]