The El Salvadoran Government Adopted

days of mid-December in 1981, the Salvadoran military slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and children who they believed were accessories to the left-wing guerrilla group that was waging war against the government. Mark Danner, in the book The Massacre at El Mozote, addresses the bloodbath through the stories of survivors and guerrilla members that witnessed it as well as questioning government officials from both the El Salvadoran and the United States government. During that time period, there were

The Massacre at El Mozote begins in the present where scientists are uncovering the bodies of the villagers of El Mozote who were unjustly slaughtered by the Salvadoran government with the aid of the American administration. Rufina Amaya, the sole survivor of the massacre, recounted her story for many years and it is only recently it was deemed credible. The massacre at El Mozote is one of the lesser known consequences of the Cold War. It is a crucial event that highlights the powerful, irrational

To fully understand the reason why El Salvador is currently so dangerous one must look a the history of the country that lead to this point. After the country gained its independence in 1821, many different elements began to arise which left the people of the state worried. Components such as social class inequality, repressive military rule, and poverty played big roles in what soon became the factors that lead to civil war. Since 1931 El Salvador 's government had been under military control, which

county of El Salvador. It’s a country similar in some ways to the US, when compared together. All of its history, culture, climate, geography, and economy have shaped it into the country it is today. El Salvador’s government is a Republic (El Salvador: Lands 79). The country’s current leader, or more commonly called the president, is Salvador Sanchez Ceren (El Salvador: BBC). He was appointed to his position on June 1, 2014(World). The people of El Salvador call themselves Salvadorans (El Salvador:

Components such as social class inequality, repressive military rule, and poverty played big roles in what soon became the factors that lead to civil war. Since 1931 El Salvador 's government had been under military control, which in a economic sphere did not prove to be successful. The state was also plagued with fraudulent elections, which as a result always granted the military victory. The military regime was also closely

(the independent military who fights the government military) and soldiers engage in battle at night, regardless of the people who live all around. The homes are damaged by gunfire and mortar and many of the town’s people are killed. Chava and his sister go to

in Chile and El Salvador, where human rights abuses were rampant during Pinochet’s dictatorship and the Salvadoran civil war. The region is still dealing with the legacy of terror from its authoritarian past. Cath Collins, a professor and researcher in the School of Political Science at the University of Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, runs a project mapping recent human rights trials in Chile. A recent book by Collins, Post-Transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador, describes

one trip in winter, a family from El Salvador asked to stop at a roadside pullout so that their children could feel the snow. They could ask for this, I thought, because they finally felt safe, only a few miles from being welcomed into Canada, their new home.” (McDaniel,

currency exchange is very limited, I believe that it was beneficial for El Salvador to adopt the US dollar as their official form of currency. As CNN’s article states, millions of dollars were sent to banks to familiarize themselves with green backs, so it is not as though the shift was unexpected or ill warned. With their economy already being familiar with our currency, taking in an average of “$4 million a day” alone from Salvadorans living in the US, there does not seem to be anything that would seemingly

El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America; most of the country is on a fertile volcanic plateau about 2,000 ft high. The people of El Salvador use the land for raising crops, building cities, and are very skillful weavers. El Salvador remained a Spanish colony for around 300 years. It was taken over by Europeans in the 1500’s. Before the Spanish conquest, which was an invasion from the Spaniards to the native people; one of the earliest groups of settlers was a group of indigenous people