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The Salvador Option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992

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El Salvador’s civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody years. Unwilling to tolerate an advance of Soviet and Cuban-backed communism in its geopolitical backyard, the United States provided over six billion dollars in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government. El Salvador used to be a deeply controversial issue in American society and divided Congress and the general public into left and right. Relying on thousands of archival documents in addition to interviews with participants on both sides of the war, The Salvador Option offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the to be had evidence. If success is defined narrowly, there’s little question that the Salvador Option achieved its Cold War strategic objectives of checking communism. A lot more difficult, alternatively, is to decide what human price this ‘success’ entailed – a toll suffered almost entirely by Salvadorans on this brutal civil war.

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