Primary Sources: Central, Latin, South America & The Caribbean: El Salvador

"Declassified Documents from 1989 Show Initial U.S. Unwillingness to Consider Salvadoran Military's Responsibility"

Contains images, writings etc. of Oscar Romero.

"This dataset contains statistical information transcribed from the supplementary documentation of a United Nations (UN) report compiled by The Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (La Comision de la Verdad para El Salvador). It includes information about approximately 20,000 civilian/noncombatant victims of the civil war in El Salvador (from 1979 to 1991) taken from interviews of those who survived or knew/knew of those who were victims. "

"Presents a speech by El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte, delivered at the Alfred M. Landon Lecture on Public Issues in Manhattan, Kansas on November 2, 1984. Views of the president on the technological advances of news and communication media; Assistance offered by the U.S. to El Salvador; Information on the ideological and political concept proposed by Duarte."

International Legal Materials
Vol. 8, No. 5 (SEPTEMBER 1969), pp. 1079-1148

"This collection of over 7,800 documents consists of documents processed under three different El Salvador Human Rights special projects cases. Documents concerning allegations of human rights abuses committed by Salvadoran security forces and FMLN rebels (1979 to 1991) were produced by the Department of State in response to inquiries by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador and the U.S. Congress in 1993 - 1994. Documents concerning the murder of four American Churchwomen (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan) by five Salvadoran National Guardsmen on December 2, 1980 are also included."

Off Our Backs
Vol. 20, No. 5, The Work Issue (may 1990), pp. 1-2

"In December 1980 three US Roman Catholic nuns and a layworker were abducted and murdered in El Salvador. Their work speaking out on behalf of the poor had made them targets for the country's fiercely anti-communist military. A close friend and colleague, Sister Patricia Murray, was one of the last people to see them alive."

"Unfinished Sentences is an initiative of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights to encourage public participation in support of human rights in El Salvador. Through this effort, we aim to document and share the stories of survivors of crimes against humanity committed in the context of El Salvador’s armed conflict, and to support Salvadoran efforts for truth and accountability."

"is composed of oral histories shared by 48 people who were residents of the community of Arcatao, in the department of Chalatenango, El Salvador, during the period of the Salvadoran civil war. More than 170 interview excerpts tell the story of the conflict from the perspective of people who experienced it first-hand."

"Secret Salvadoran military document from the civil war era catalogued “enemies,” many killed or disappeared"