Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Salvadoran Civil War (1980 1992) was a conflict in El Salvador. It was between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or umbrella organization of five left-wing militias. Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war''s full outbreak, over the course of the 1970s. The United States supported the Salvadoran military government. The conflict ended in the early 1990s. Some 75,000 people were killed.