Fortunately. this armed conflict ended in 1996. with the signing of the peace accords between the Guatemalan Government and the armed opposition. grouped together as the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit. In El Salvador. it was discontent over social inequalities. a poor economy and a repressive dictatorship that in 1980 finally ignited a civil war between a repressive military government and leftist guerilla groups who united under the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. During 12 years of that civil war. 75.000 Salvadorans. mostly civilians. were killed and thousands more fled to refugee camps in Honduras and many more made their way north to the United States as immigrants. The United States provided more than $5 billion in economic and military assistance to the Salvadoran Government over the course of that conflict. But it took the U.N. to broker a peace accord to end a conflict that military force failed to resolve.
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