Category Archives: El Salvador’s Civil War (1980-1992)

The Legacies of Torture in Central America

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Colin M. Snider

As scholarship and human rights reports have repeatedly demonstrate, the effects of torture on the human mind and body have long-term ramifications, and many of those victims continue suffer from both the psychological and the physical effects of torture decades … Continue reading →

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Around Latin America

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Colin M. Snider

-While many in the Americas celebrated the announcement of the first American pope last year, not all citizens (including Catholic clergy) in Francis I’s home country are pleased with Bergoglio or the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina. -It appears the long national … Continue reading →

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El Salvador’s Stolen Children

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Colin M. Snider

Argentina and Spain aren’t the only countries where children were stolen from their parents during military rule. As the Associated Press reminds us, El Salvador has its own history of children stolen from their parents during the civil war of … Continue reading →

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Around Latin America [Updated]

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Colin M. Snider

-Early reports are saying 245 232 people died in a nightclub fire last night in Santa Maria, a city in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. Somewhere between 300 and 400 people were reportedly at the event, a party … Continue reading →

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On This Date in Latin America – August 22, 1982: The El Calabozo Massacre in El Salvador

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Colin M. Snider

Last December, I commented on the 30th anniversary of the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador. While that massacre has received broad international and historical attention, it is tragically far from the only incident of state terrorism and widespread human-rights … Continue reading →

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On This Date in Latin America – July 14, 1969: The El Salvador-Honduras War (A.K.A., the “Football War”) Begins

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Colin M. Snider

Forty-three years ago today, El Salvador and Honduras began a war that lasted 100 hours and would come to be known as the “Football War.” Although the war’s name comes from the nationalist conflicts between the two countries as embodied on … Continue reading →

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On This Date in Latin America – March 24, 1980: The Assassination of Oscar Romero

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Colin M. Snider

Thirty-two years ago today, a Salvadoran death squad with ties to the government gunned down  Oscar Romero, the Archbishop of El Salvador, while he was celebrating mass. Romero became an ordained priest in 1942, and worked his way up through the … Continue reading →

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Around Latin America

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Colin M. Snider

-The Salvadoran government is now providing a pension to ex-rebels who fought against the military dictatorship during the country’s civil war from 1980-1992. More than 2600 rebels over 70 will receive the $50 monthly pension, although the government acknowledges that the pension … Continue reading →

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Around Latin America

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Colin M. Snider

-Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said in an AP interview that she will seek to completely sever Jamaica’s ties with Queen Elisabeth, who remains the titular head-of-state for the Caribbean nation. Simpson Miller has her hopes that Jamaica can … Continue reading →

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Around Latin America

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Colin M. Snider

-A Guatemalan judge has denied dictator and ex-general Efraín Ríos Montt’s claim that an amnesty protects him from prosecution for human rights violations his regime committed, leaving the general open to more genocide charges. Ríos Montt governed from 1981-1982 during a … Continue reading →

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