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United States intervention in the El Salvador Civil War

 * 1) I aim to further expand the information on this subject that is described in the article on the El Salvador Civil War, but with most information pertaining to the United States in some form or another. I want to describe why the U.S became involved in this conflict, how they enabled other U.S. allies to become involved, what were the atrocities committed by them: directly or through support of the El Salvador government, and how it has affected current United States-El Salvador relations today. I want to emphasize that while United States soldiers may not have directly committed crimes, they supported those within the country who did.
 * How will this fit with the main article on the Salvadoran Civil War? Do you plan to create a new, stand-alone page (like the one for US Intervention in Chile ), or a major section within the existing article?  What do you think are the benefits of these two different choices?  Katherine.Holt (talk) 17:55, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Preliminary Bibliography

 * Ching, Erik Kristofer. Stories of civil war in El Salvador: a battle over memory. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
 * Crandall, Russell. The Salvador option: the United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
 * McPherson, Alan. A short history of U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
 * Stanley, William Deane. Protection racket State: elite politics, military extortion and civil war in El Salvador. Philadelphia (Miss.): Temple University Press, 1996.

Great selection of sources that meet Wikipedia's criteria for evidence. Katherine.Holt (talk) 01:44, 27 February 2017 (UTC)