El Salvador – A War by Proxy

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The Central American nation of El Salvador used to be consumed by a bloody civil war between 1980 and 1992. The principal players in the conflict were the right-wing government of El Salvador, a coalition of rebel groups operating under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, and the Reagan administration in the USA. The U.S. supported the Salvadoran military at an estimated cost of $6 billion dollars. All through the course of the war, in a nation whose population numbered relatively more than five million, an estimated 75,000 people were killed; 18,000 disappeared, and one million people were left homeless. Investigating the background and history of the war Keith Preston provides not only an in-depth analysis of the conflict, but fills in among the knowledge gaps that have existed surrounding the relationship between the United States administration and the Salvadorian army. His research clearly demolishes the United States argument that the FMLN were motivated by a commitment to hard-line Marxist-Leninist ideology, but slightly by a newer roughly radicalism with its roots in the progressive wing of the Catholic Church of Latin The united states. Without the role of the Catholic Church, the Salvadoran resistance would never have developed in the form that it did, and perhaps it shouldn’t have developed to nearly as significant a level as it did at all.

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