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Background Notes: El Salvador, March 1999(2455 clicks)
Released by the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State. History and other data.

Ceren Web Resource(221 clicks)
Ceren is an agricultural village in El Salvador that was buried in ash nearly fourteen centuries ago. Ceren is registered as a UN Heritage site and has been called the "Pompeii of the New World." Discovered in 1976 by Payson D. Sheets, an anthropology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and under continuous excavation and study since, Ceren offers exciting opportunities to study household archaeology. In 1995 the Sundance Laboratory began to explore the use of visualization and computer modeling to represent and understand archaeological data at Ceren.

Civil War of the 1980s(1771 clicks)
Encyclopedia Britannica provides this and other articles about the country.

El Mozote, The Truth of(223 clicks)
n a remote corner of El Salvador, investigators uncovered the remains of a horrible crime -- a crime that Washington had long denied. The villagers of El Mozote had the misfortune to find themselves in the path of the Salvadoran Army's anti-Communist crusade. The story of the massacre at El Mozote -- how it came about, and why it had to be denied -- stands as a central parable of the Cold War. by Mark Danner

El Salvador History and Government(1647 clicks)
from World Travel Guide.

El Salvador History(1664 clicks)
From the World History Archives.

El Salvador history(1618 clicks)
From Radio Netherlands. good photos included in the text.

El Salvador: A Country Study(1582 clicks)
From the Library of Congress. Excellent.

Enemies of War(1527 clicks)
PBS special. Concerned with the civil war of the 1980s.

From Madness to Hope: the 12 year war in El Salvador(742 clicks)

History of El Salvador(1594 clicks)
Arranged by chronological periods.

Lindo-Fuentes, Hector. Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century 1821-1(630 clicks)
Scholarly book

Lindo-Fuentes, Hector. Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century 1821-1(658 clicks)
Scholarly book

Notes on El Salvador in the 1980s(1449 clicks)
Notes on the El Salvador in the early 1980s.

Romero: The Revolutionary of God(1313 clicks)
Killed by conservative gunmen while saying Mass in 1980 in El Salvador.

Salvadoran Artifacts in the Cobb Museum(1311 clicks)
The Cobb Insitute of Archeology at Mississippi State University presents photographs of Salvadorean artifacts

The El Mozote Massacre (218 clicks)
In December 1981, the inhabitants of a small Salvadoran hamlet were systematically exterminated by the Atacatl Battalion, a U.S.-trained counterinsurgency force. The Reagan administration, determined to preserve U.S. support for El Salvador's war against leftist guerrillas, downplayed reports of this massacre. The White House ignored and deflected reports that hundreds of unarmed women, children and men were shot, hung or beheaded.
Today, the truth is known beyond any doubt. Fifteen years after one of the worst massacres in Latin American history, Dossier reports on the incident at El Mozote.

The Truth of El Mozote(1464 clicks)
By Mark Danner. "In a remote corner of El Salvador, investigators uncovered the remains of a horrible crime -- a crime that Washington had long denied. The villagers of El Mozote had the misfortune to find themselves in the path of the Salvadoran Army's anti-Communist crusade. The story of the massacre at El Mozote -- how it came about, and why it had to be denied -- stands as a central parable of the Cold War."

Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century 1821-1898(1196 clicks)
Scholarly book by Héctor Lindo-Fuentes