Central America in the Crosshairs of War: On the Road fro...
Wallace, Scott / Dodd, Christopher J.
During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration financed and directed wars against popular movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua that left more than 300, 000 dead and countless more wounded. Vowing to block "Soviet expansion, " the U.S. waged a Vietnam-style counterinsurgency against leftist rebels in El Salvador while orchestrating an illegal and covert war to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Some 75, 000 died in El Salvador, mo...