Scranton, PA – From 1980 to 1992, civil war ravaged the Central American state of El Salvador, claiming the lives of approximately 75,000 Salvadorans. For three days this February, scholars from ...

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

Article on Latino congregations needed a more precise telling of El Salvador's history in order to understand reasons for ...

From 1980 to 1992, El Salvador’s civil war resulted in the deaths of as many as 75,000 civilians and other atrocities. Following the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992, the U.S. abandoned its ...

The end of a brutal civil war in 1992 ushered in a new force of lawlessness in El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America: gangs that took hold after the United States deported thousands ...

The Saravia notebook, reviewed by U.S. officials, listed weapons purchases, payments, and what appear to be descriptions of violent plots by rightists, including the assassination of El Salvador ...

During El Salvador's merciless 12-year civil war, hundreds of children were forcibly taken by the military and illegally put up for adoption, many overseas. Only now, more than three decades since ...

He is the leader of an area known as La Fosa (the Graveyard). He says this is where many bodies were dumped during El Salvador's 12-year civil war in the late 1980s, which left 75,000 people dead.

Last summer, third-year law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission (IPM), a non-profit that engages in community development ...