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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]
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.
The junta dissolved ORDEN which resulted in the death squads operating independently throughout what became the Salvadoran Civil War. [ 11 ] [ 17 ] The junta itself was the source of human rights violations such as mass murder, torture, executions, and unexplained disappearances.
The coup of October 1979 marked the end of the military regime of El Salvador and many mark it as the start of the Salvadoran Civil War. [1] The civil war lasted until 1992 with the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords. [1] [113]
Meanwhile, in El Salvador, commissions for a peace dialogue were trying to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. A dialogue was held in Mexico on 13 September 1989, resulting in the "Mexico Agreement", the first formal proposal to negotiate the end of the war. A month later, a new gathering was held in Costa Rica to continue the ...
El Salvador is experiencing one of the worst human rights crises since the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, because of President Nayib Bukele ’s harsh anti-gang crackdown, Amnesty International ...
By the end of the day, the FMLN captured and secured Mendez Island near El Triunfo in Usulután. [40] The Guatemalan Army was mobilized on the Guatemalan–Salvadoran border to prevent any soldiers of the FMLN from entering the country, which itself was in the midst of its own civil war. [41]
The Monument to the Reconciliation (Spanish: Monumento a la Reconciliación) was a monument which existed in El Salvador from 2017 until its demolition in 2024.The monument, which was designed by sculptor Napoleón Alberto Escoto, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords which ended the Salvadoran Civil War.