The Salvador option : the United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992 /
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. 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 II. 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 III. 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 IV. George H.W. Bush
- Elusive justice
- Pessimism
- Bush arrives
- Bush, Cristiani, and the 1989 vote
- Guerrilla "second" final offensive, 1989
- Jesuit killings
- Sams
- United Nations and peace
- Demobilization
- Part V. Post-war
- Post-war Salvador
- Concluding thoughts.