How Did the Civil War in El Salvador End
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5736621 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joaquín M Chávez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1784-1797 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/120.5.1784 |
| OpenAlex | W2224476621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
the most devastating conflicts in modern Latin American history.Pitting forces advocating democracy and revolution against those who were attempting to preserve the oligarchic military regime formed in 1932 (or variants of it), the war between the insurgent Farabundo Martı ́National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the government of El Salvador claimed the lives of 75,000 civilians and thousands of soldiers and insurgents during the 1980s in a country with a total population of 5 million. 1Nearly 1 million people were forcefully displaced within El Salvador or became refugees in Central America, Mexico, the United States, and elsewhere as a result of the conflict. 2A UN-mediated negotiation between the government of President Alfredo Cristiani and the FMLN put an end to the conflict in 1992 and paved the way for the only sustained democratic period in Salvadoran history.This process constituted a new experience in the trajectory of left insurgencies in Latin America. 3 In contrast to the combination of political mobilizations and armed struggle that put the July 26 Movement in Cuba and the Sandinista
Political science · Spanish Civil War · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |