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The Salvador Option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992

By Russell Crandall

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
1107134595, 9781107134591
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13087345 bytes)
Pages
718\718
Topic
History
Time added
2019-11-15 21:54:45

Description

El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody years. Unwilling to tolerate an advance of Soviet and Cuban-backed communism in its geopolitical backyard, the US provided over six billion dollars in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government. El Salvador was a deeply controversial issue in American society and divided Congress and the public into left and right. Relying on thousands of archival documents as well as interviews with participants on both sides of the war, The Salvador Option offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the available evidence. If success is defined narrowly, there is little question that the Salvador Option achieved its Cold War strategic objectives of checking communism. Much more difficult, however, is to determine what human price this 'success' entailed - a toll suffered almost entirely by Salvadorans in this brutal civil war.

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