El Salvador: Civil War (1979-1992) Part I

Beginning of the Civil War By the 1970s, the poor in El Salvador began to feel resentment towards the military-controlled government.

Beginning of the Civil War The indigenous became peons on land they previously owned.

Beginning of the Civil War The Catholic Church supported the theory of liberation theology in support of the poor.

Beginning of the Civil War In 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero speaks against the army and is shot during Mass.

Beginning of the Civil War The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) formed to fight the military regime.

Civil war in El Salvador – part ii (to be continued)