El Salvador’s Civil War: In Color
I photographed the El Salvador conflict for Time magazine from 1981-84. El Salvador was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritative regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
El Salvador has never fully recovered from the civil war. The country suffers the consequences of an inconclusive peace agreement between rival political parties and a continual dependence on U.S. aid, generating increased gang violence and emigration issues.
