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1989 |
The right-wing ARENA party of El Salvador began to be supported by the US government. Links: El Salvador, USA 
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1990 Jan 7 |
The president of El Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani, said in a nationally broadcast address that military men two months earlier had massacred six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Links: El Salvador
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1990 Feb 23 |
Former Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte died at age 64. Links: El Salvador
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1990 |
Adam Kufeld published “El Salvador.” He had made 8 trips to the country as a photographer between 1985-1989. Links: El Salvador
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1990 |
The US House of Representatives voted to cut aid to El Salvador by 50%. Links: El Salvador, USA
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1990 |
Adam Kufeld published "El Salvador." He had made 8 trips to the country as a photographer between 1985-1989. Links: El Salvador, USA, Writer, Photography, Books
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1991 Dec 31 |
Representatives of the government of El Salvador and rebels reached agreement at the United Nations on a peace accord aimed at ending 12 years of civil war. Links: El Salvador, UN
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1991 |
An El Salvador government commission decided to return a swath of the Finca El Espina land to the Duenas family and that 865 acres be turned into a reserve. The 550 families of the cooperative that acquired the land in 1980 were to be left with 700 acres of the poorest, driest land. Links: El Salvador
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1991 |
In El Salvador a government commission decided to return a swath of the Finca El Espina land to the Duenas family and that 865 acres be turned into a reserve. The 550 families of the cooperative that acquired the land in 1980 were to be left with 700 acres of the poorest, driest land. Links: El Salvador, Real Estate
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1992 Jan 16 |
Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war that had left at least 75,000 people dead. Links: El Salvador, Mexico
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1992 Jan 24 |
A judge in El Salvador sentenced an army colonel and a lieutenant to 30 years in prison for their part in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Links: El Salvador, Murder
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1992 Dec |
A peace treaty was signed between leftist rebels and the El Salvador government. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front became legal and described itself as social democratic. The Peace Accords introduced reforms to give land to ex-combatants of the FMLN and the military. The National Civilian Police replaced the National Police. Links: El Salvador
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1992 Dec |
In El Salvador a peace treaty was signed between leftist rebels and the government. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front became legal and described itself as social democratic. The Peace Accords introduced reforms to give land to ex-combatants of the FMLN and the military. Links: El Salvador
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1992 |
In El Salvador the new US Embassy was completed. Plans for the structure had been drawn up in 1984. Links: El Salvador, USA
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1992 |
El Salvador Army Major Roberto d’Aubuisson, founder of the rightist Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA), died at age 48. Links: El Salvador
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1992 |
In El Salvador after the guerrillas demobilized the Communist Party kept guerrilla leader Jose Louis Merino’s network of safe houses intact and continued to kidnap for ransom. In 2008 Merino, a dominant force in the FMLN, was implicated in helping Colombia’s FARC contact two Australia arms dealers. Links: El Salvador
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1993 Mar 14 |
An independent U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador's civil war on the country's military. Links: El Salvador, UN
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1993 Oct 25 |
Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), was murdered. Links: El Salvador,
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1993 Oct 30 |
Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvador guerilla leader, was murdered. Links: El Salvador
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1993 Oct 30 |
Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, was murdered. Links: El Salvador, Murder
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1993 |
Along with the peace accord El Salvador Pres. Alfredo Cristiani reprivatized the banks and set himself and a tight circle of friends, secretly called “The Apostles,” in control of the biggest institutions. Links: El Salvador
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1993 |
A broad amnesty was given to all combatants of the 1980-1992 El Salvador civil war. The Salvadoran war raged over 12 years and left around 75,000 people dead. Links: El Salvador
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1993 |
In El Salvador a high-interest pyramid scheme bilked some $35 million from thousands of middle-class investors. The ARENA government of Pres. Cristiani did not stop it or prosecute those responsible. Links: El Salvador, Scam
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1993 |
In El Salvador along with the peace accord Pres. Alfredo Cristiani reprivatized the banks and set himself and a tight circle of friends, secretly called "The Apostles," in control of the biggest institutions. Links: El Salvador
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1994 Mar 20 |
El Salvador held its first presidential election following the country's 12-year-old civil war. Armando Calderon Sol of the ARENA party led the vote, but needed to win a run-off to achieve the presidency. Links: El Salvador
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1994 |
There were 7,673 people murdered in this year according to the El Salvador attorney general’s office. Links: El Salvador
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1994 |
In El Salvador there were 7,673 people murdered in this year according to the attorney general’s office. Links: El Salvador
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1994 |
Lori Helene Berenson, an American, arrived in Peru from El Salvador where she had worked as the personal secretary to Leonel Gonzalez, top commander of the FMLN guerrillas. Links: El Salvador, Peru, USA
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1995 Aug 9 |
A Boeing 737 belonging to Guatemala’s Aviateca airline hit the Chichontepec volcano in El Salvador on a flight from Miami and killed all 65 on board. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Air Crash, Florida
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1995 |
Some 40 El Salvador citizens banded together to form the Patriotic Movement. Their first project was the 1996 exchange program Goods for Guns. Links: El Salvador
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1995 |
A pilot CARE program surveyed El Salvador ranches under joint title to former guerrillas in order to establish specific ownership to improve development. It grew to a $26 million program by 1998. Links: El Salvador
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1995 |
There were 7,877 people murdered in this year according to the El Salvador attorney general’s office. Links: El Salvador
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1995 |
In El Salvador some 40 citizens banded together to form the Patriotic Movement. Their first project was the 1996 exchange program Goods for Guns. Links: El Salvador
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1995 |
In El Salvador a pilot CARE program surveyed ranches under joint title to former guerrillas in order to establish specific ownership to improve development. It grew to a $26 million program by 1998. Links: El Salvador
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1995 |
In El Salvador there were 7,877 people murdered in this year according to the attorney general’s office. Links: El Salvador, Murder
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1996 Mar 19 |
In El Salvador an Emergency Anti-Crime Law was approved by President Armando Calderon Sol. Its language called for all Salvadorans charged with crimes abroad to be locked up and re-educated. Links: El Salvador
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1996 Mar 20 |
In El Salvador 4 teenaged members of a youth gang were summarily executed in the provincial capital of Santa Ana. Links: El Salvador
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1996 Mar 21 |
In El Salvador a case against narcotics traffickers was dropped when the judge learned that the evidence, 46 lbs. of cocaine, had disappeared from police headquarters. Links: El Salvador
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1996 Mar 23 |
In El Salvador 8 police officers opened fire on citizens in a rural hamlet and killed four people including an 11-year-old boy. The incident began when the police tried to buy beer from a store after being told that it was closed for the night. Links: El Salvador
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1996 Sep |
In El Salvador the Goods for Guns project began and in 2 weeks collected 1,262 weapons and 14,580 units of ammunition. Links: El Salvador, Guns
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1996 |
In San Salvador the two largest street gangs signed a peace accord that ended four years of vicious street warfare. The Catholic Church mediated between the members of the MS gang and the M-18 gang. Links: El Salvador
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1996 |
There were 6,792 people murdered in this year according to the El Salvador attorney general’s office. Links: El Salvador
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1996 |
In El Salvador there were 6,792 people murdered in this year according to the attorney general’s office. Links: El Salvador
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1997 Feb 9 |
It was reported that developers wished to convert part of the Finca El Espino land in El Salvador to a $100 million luxury development while farmers wished to maintain coffee growth and the government sought a park. Links: El Salvador
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1997 Feb 22 |
It was reported that the Clinton administration was seeking to have the former El Salvador rebel, Pedro Antonio Andrade, deported as a terrorist. Links: El Salvador, USA, ClintonB
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1997 Mar 16 |
Elections for mayors in 262 El Salvador cities and for the 84-member unicameral Legislative Assembly was scheduled. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party was a front-runner. Hector Silva of the Democratic Convergence Party won the mayoral elections for San Salvador. He ran under a coalition led by the FMLN. Links: El Salvador
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1997 Jun |
In El Salvador a Credi Club bank scandal involved the disappearance of $11 million in depositor’s savings. Links: El Salvador, Corp. Scandal
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1997 Jul 14 |
In El Salvador regulators seized Financiera Insepro which collapsed and left more than 1000 account holders demanding justice. The $15 million bank failure led to a call for US investigators and 5 prominent business leaders were jailed. Links: El Salvador, USA, Corp. Scandal
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1997 Jul |
In El Salvador Roberto Mathies Hill was arrested on fraud charges for having bilked at least $115 million from depositors in a complex financial shell game. Links: El Salvador, Fraud
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1997 Sep 4 |
In Cuba an explosion shook 3 tourist hotels and one Italian tourist was killed. Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon (25) of Salvador was arrested and accused of carrying out a half-dozen hotel attacks. He worked for Luis Posada Carriles, who was supported by the Cuban-American National Foundation. Cruz was sentenced to death in 1999. In 2010 Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence ruling that he should serve 30 years in prison instead. Francisco Chavez Abarca of El Salvador was later arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison for planting some of the bombs. Links: El Salvador, Cuba
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1997 Sep 10 |
In Cuba a former Salvadoran soldier was arrested and confessed to carrying out a series of bomb attacks. A statement said that Raul Ernesto Cruz was paid $4,500 for each bomb he planted and that he had been trained in El Salvador. Links: El Salvador, Cuba
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1997 Nov 16 |
In El Salvador it was reported that 22 murders a day occur. Vehicles in the capital have increased fivefold in 5 years and the garbage dump in San Salvador is full. The opposition FNLN now controls 45% of the country. Links: El Salvador
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1997 |
Castellanos Moya (b.1957), Honduras-born Salvadoran writer, authored “”Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” (El asco, Thomas Bernhard en El Salvador), a barbed monologue against everything Salvadoran. Links: El Salvador, Writer, Books
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1998 Jan 16 |
Israel Job Pineda, a fisherman in La Herradura, El Salvador, was shot and killed by a pirate intruder. Pirates had become a growing threat to the local shrimp fisherman. Police later arrested nine fishermen linked to the attack. Links: El Salvador
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1998 Jan 16 |
In El Salvador Israel Job Pineda, a fisherman in La Herradura, was shot and killed by a pirate intruder. Pirates had become a growing threat to the local shrimp fisherman. Police later arrested nine fishermen linked to the attack. Links: El Salvador, Pirates
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1998 Jun 1 |
It was reported that just 2% of the forest remained in El Salvador, which was once covered by forest. Links: El Salvador
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1998 Jun 1 |
From El Salvador it was reported that just 2% of the forest remained in the country that was once covered by forest. Links: El Salvador, Environment, Trees
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1998 Jul 12 |
Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador agreed to join forces to build a $2 billion railroad network to link Central America with Mexico. Links: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, Mexico
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1998 Oct 22 1998 Nov 9 |
Hurricane Mitch was one of the Caribbean's deadliest storms ever causing at least at least 9,000 deaths in Central America. The storm hit Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Jamaica, and Costa Rica. Later reports put the death toll in Honduras to 6,076. In Nicaragua the deaths reached 4,000, in Guatemala it was157, and in El Salvador it was 222. The storm parked over Honduras and rain poured for 6 days straight. Aid of $66 mil was ordered from the US, $8 mil from the EU, $11.6 mil from Spain along with pledges from other countries and private organizations. Links: El Salvador, Hurricane
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1998 Oct 22 1998 Nov 9 |
Hurricane Mitch was one of the Caribbean's deadliest storms ever causing at least at least 9,000 deaths in Central America. The storm hit Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Jamaica, and Costa Rica. Links: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Jamaica, Hurricane
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