Salvadoran Civil War

Absolutely.

The Salvadoran Civil War was brutal.

The death toll was upwards of 70,000 and uncounted numbers of people who were disappeared.

And what was most, or in addition, what was outstanding about the Civil War was that one third of its population died.

His assassin was a United States trained Salvadoran military officer.

Jimmy left office just as the Salvadoran Civil War was beginning in 1979.

The war was fought between the El Salvadoran government was backed by the military and the united states and leftist guerrilla groups backed by cuba and the soviet union so naturally ronald reagan viewed this as a proxy war in the larger cold war the civil war lasted until 1992 and over this time the united states gave over six billion dollars to the el salvadoran government which indirectly funded military death squads these squads carried out kidnappings severe torture executions and mutilation of bodies They would typically target labor leaders, student activists, teachers, priests, and peasants.

And the El Salvadoran Civil War didn't even have a real winner.

It ended in a political and military stalemate.

But I'd argue that the real losers of the Civil War were the people of El Salvador as a whole.

Oh, I don't know about that.

Uh, the beginning of the Salvadoran Civil War.

Well, hell, that's constant, isn't it?

Kind of.