Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities: El Salvador

"In El Salvador, leftists led a democratic and eventually armed movement against the long-standing predominance of the military in politics (1931–1980). U.S. intervention and restructuring of the military and state in order to stem a rebel victory resulted in drawn-out and large-scale war (1980–1992). Thousands were killed by government-sponsored death squads and the U.S.–restructured Salvadoran army, especially its elite battalions; hundreds were killed in combat on both sides; and tens of thousands of people were displaced from their places of origin to refugee camps in Honduras, slums in San Salvador, and eventually through large-scale emigration to Mexico, Costa Rica, and especially the United States (Los Angeles, Long Island, Washington, D.C., and metropolitan Boston). The twelve-year war created a large flow of refugees that eventually became economically motivated, as families in El Salvador came to depend on the money sent by their relatives (remesas). U.S. refusal since the early 1980s to acknowledge that Salvadoran emigration resulted mostly from the repressive and militaristic solutions sought by its local ally resulted in the rejection of Salvadorans as refugees."

Santiago, Aldo Lauria. "United States Interventions in Latin America." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. : Oxford University Press, 2005. https://ezproxy.depaul.edu/login?url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195156003.001.0001/acref-9780195156003-e-943#acref-9780195156003-div2-283

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)

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El Salvador -- Politics and government -- 1979-1992

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