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History > 20th century > Cold War - late 1940s-1980s
El Salvador’s civil war 1980s-1992
United States’ involvement in El Salvador NYT 10 November 2014
Killed in El Salvador: An American Story Video Retro Report The New York Times 10 November 2014
In 1980, the murder of four American churchwomen focused attention on the United States’ involvement in El Salvador.
Nearly 35 years later, the case continues to take surprising turns.
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On Nov. 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter were killed by a group of U.S.-backed soldiers in El Salvador's capital.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/
It is remembered as one of the great atrocities of El Salvador's 12-year civil war.
In 1989, a Salvadoran military battalion raided a private Jesuit university before dawn and executed six priests, their cook and her teenage daughter.
One of those killed, university rector Ignacio Ellacuría, had promoted dialogue between the U.S.-backed right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in the country's civil war.
He and four of the other slain priests were Spanish citizens.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/
President José Napoleón Duarte flanked by the Army chief of staff, Gen. Adolfo Blandón, left, and the defense minister, Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, right, at the funeral for Lt. Col. Domingo.
Monterrosa, San Salvador, 1984.
Photograph: Scott Wallace
Finding Echoes of Today’s Headlines in Central America’s Proxy Wars in the 1980s NYT Feb. 27, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/
Mourners at the funeral of the assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero, 1980.
Photograph: Harry Mattison
A Young Poet, a Mysterious Stranger and an El Salvador on the Brink of War NYT April 20, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/
El Salvador, 1980
Wessing photographed the events during the funeral of archbishop Óscar Romero in El Salvador, where tens of thousands of mourners who had gathered in front of the cathedral fled in terror as army gunners on the rooftops around the square opened fire
Turbulence, trauma, hope: Koen Wessing's indelible images of history – in pictures G Thu 17 Jan 2019 04.56 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jan/17/
1980s - 1992
El Salvador’s civil war
The start of El Salvador’s civil war in 1980 was heralded by acts of incomprehensible violence:
the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980) while he celebrating Mass;
the rape and murder of four American churchwomen.
Yet those events paled in comparison to what happened the following year, when a U.S.-trained counterinsurgency force massacred more than 900 men, women and children in El Mozote and surrounding villages.
In a gruesome war that claimed some 75,000 lives from 1980 until peace accords were signed in 1992, the three-day massacre at El Mozote stands out as the worst atrocity in a conflict marked by torture, executions and disappearances.
Although American and Salvadoran officials at the time dismissed reports in The New York Times and The Washington Post, subsequent exhumations have provided undeniable proof of the price paid by that country’s civilians who were caught between their own military and leftist rebels.
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/14/
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/12/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/25/
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/
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