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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]
History of El Salvador; Kingdom of Cuzcatlan (c.1200–1528) Spanish conquest (1524–1539) Intendancy of San Salvador (1785–1821) 1811 Independence Movement; Mexican rule (1822–1823) Federal Republic of Central America (1823–1841) Greater Republic of Central America (1895–1898) Military dictatorship (1931–1979) Salvadoran Civil War ...
1885 — Barrios' War of Reunification; 1969 Football War; 1960 — 1996 Central American crisis. 1979 — 1992 Salvadoran Civil War. December 11, 1981 El Mozote massacre; August 21, 1982 — August 22, 1982 El Calabozo massacre; June 19, 1985 21:30 Zona Rosa attacks; November 16, 1989 Murder of UCA scholars; 2022–present Salvadoran gang ...
War of 1832 (1832) El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua. Defeat: Malespín's War (1844) El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua: Victory: Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1845 El Salvador Honduras: Status Quo Ante Bellum: Filibuster War (1856–1857) Costa Rica Nicaragua Mosquitia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States United Kingdom (naval support) Filibusters
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 ...
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:
Santa Ana, El Salvador's second largest city, [33] was declared to be under a state of siege on 11 January after its main road connection to San Salvador was severed by the FMLN. The Cavalry Regiment under Major Óscar Campos Anaya was deployed from La Libertad to eastern San Salvador to defend the capital from a guerrilla assault that numbered ...
In the three decades since peace accords ended the nation's bloody civil war, El Salvador had become a beacon of media freedom in a region where journalists are sometimes jailed and even killed ...