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 ...

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

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.

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 fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police ...

The president following Carter, passionately anti-Communist Ronald Reagan, made El Salvador’s civil war his own. When he took office in 1981, aid increased exponentially.

2012 December - Human Rights Court for the Americas finds El Salvador guilty over the civil war massacre at El Mozote in 1981. 2013 April - A year-long truce between street gangs has saved the ...

Then there are the atrocities of the civil war, like the 1981 El Mozote massacre, during which military officers, funded and abetted by the U.S., wiped out an entire town in the course of one day.

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 ...

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 ...

El Salvador, the most densely-populated state on the mainland of the Americas, is a small and highly-industrialised country. In the 1980s, El Salvador was ravaged by a bitter civil war stoked by ...

El Salvador’s Parliament approved the emergency decree for 30 days, suspending some civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution and giving the government the ability to make arbitrary arrests ...