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An unidentified Salvadoran special forces Soldier keeps a close eye on the borders of Camp Charlie in Al Hillah, Iraq, April 14, 2005. The Cuscatlan Battalion IV Soldier is helping support Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is being conducted mainly by Coalition Forces in Hillah.
[5]: 11 Between 1983 and 1987, El Salvador's military forces received over 100 million dollars per year from the US. [24] In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, the US restricted funding to the Salvadoran military. The US found its rigorous measures against left wing groups were no longer needed.
The Salvadoran military dictatorship was the period of time in Salvadoran history where the Salvadoran Armed Forces governed the country for almost 48 years from 2 December 1931 until 15 October 1979.
The Military Museum of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (Spanish: Museo Militar de la Fuerza Armada de El Salvador) is located in San Salvador, El Salvador. The museum is housed inside the former El Zapote barracks (cuartel El Zapote) of the Salvadoran Army. The museum is owned by the Ministry of National Defense.
The Salvadoran Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the left-wing Marxist-oriented Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) against the armed and security forces loyal to the military-led conservative government of El Salvador, between 1979 and 1992. Main combatants comprised:
A former member of the El Salvador military involved in the most gruesome massacre in contemporary Latin American history has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Scripps ...
1979 Salvadoran coup d'état – President Carlos Humberto Romero was overthrown by the Salvadoran Army on 15 October 1979. The Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador was established and elected Álvaro Magaña as President on 2 May 1982. The coup started the 12-year long Salvadoran Civil War. [14] [15] [16] [17]
The U.S. arrested Salvadoran retired military officer Roberto Antonio Garay Saravia, for his alleged involvement in El Salvador's El Mozote massacre.