Central American Crisis - El Salvador

El Salvador

It was between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or umbrella organization of five left-wing militias. Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war's full outbreak, over the course of the 1970s.

The United States supported the Salvadorian military government. The conflict ended in the early 1990s. Some 75,000 people were killed.

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