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The Salvador option :

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1107134595

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1316500640

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Title Proper

The Salvador option :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Russell Crandall, Davidson College.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY, USA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 698 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-675) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Part one. El Salvador in the Cold War. Farabundo Martí, la matanza, and a stolen election -- The United States in Latin America -- American military mission in El Salvador -- A divided nation : military traditions, democratic third way, and liberation theology -- Guerrillas are born -- Part two. Jimmy Carter. Revolution and counterinsurgency in Guatemala -- Mass organizations -- Carter arrives -- Carter and the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, 1979 -- An October coup -- Carter engages Salvador -- Archbishop Romero -- Land -- The American churchwomen -- Arming the rebels -- Guerrilla final offensive, January 1981 -- Death squads -- Part three. Ronald Reagan. Reagan arrives -- Reagan and Salvador -- El Mozote -- Another Vietnam -- Solidarity -- Troop cap and certifying human rights -- Reagan gambles on elections, 1982 -- The Shultz Doctrine -- Human rights -- Henry Kissinger -- Contras -- "Elections yes, dialogue no," 1984 presidential election -- La Palma -- Esquipulas -- Counterinsurgency I -- Counterinsurgency II -- Zona Rosa -- Air war -- José Napoleón Duarte -- Iran-Contra -- Part four. George H.W. Bush. Elusive justice -- Pessimism -- Bush arrives -- Bush, Cristiani, and the 1989 vote -- Guerrilla second final offensive, November 1989 -- Jesuit killings -- SAMs -- United Nations and peace -- Demobilization -- Part five. Postwar. Postwar Salvador -- Concluding thoughts.

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El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody years. Unwilling to tolerate an advance of Soviet and Cuban-backed communism in its geopolitical backyard, the US provided over six billion dollars in military and economic aid to the Salvadoran government. El Salvador was a deeply controversial issue in American society and divided Congress and the public into left and right. Relying on thousands of archival documents as well as interviews with participants on both sides of the war, The Salvador Option offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the available evidence. If success is defined narrowly, there is little question that the Salvador Option achieved its Cold War strategic objectives of checking communism. Much more difficult, however, is to determine what human price this 'success' entailed - a toll suffered almost entirely by Salvadorans in this brutal civil war. -- Amazon.com.

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Cambridge Univ Pr, 100 Brook Hill Dr, West Nyack, NY, USA, 10994-2133, (845)3537500

Military assistance, American-- El Salvador.

Diplomatic relations.

Internationale Politik

Military assistance, American.

El Salvador, Foreign relations, United States.

El Salvador, History, 1979-1992.

El Salvador, History, Military, 20th century.

United States, Foreign relations, El Salvador.

El Salvador

El Salvador.

United States.

USA

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Crandall, Russell,1971-

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