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AbstractEl Salvador, one of the Central American countries, witnessed several revolutions and uprisings, the most important of which was the 1980-1992 civil war. The importance of this event lies in the fact that it gives a clear picture of what the Salvadoran society was suffering before the outbreak of that war represented by the division of society into an influential group that possesses agricultural lands and means of production, which is the oligarchy Allied with the army, and another group that suffers from very poor economic conditions has been struggling to improve their standard of living, in addition to the army’s control of government by following the methods of rigging elections, preventing reformists and civilians from reaching power and using force and violence as a tool to maintain its control over the government, which caused exclusion. Some groups who participate in the political process, such as leftists with communist thought, so those groups resorted to methods of murder and violence in order to achieve their goal of political participation, compared to the oligarchy who formed an alliance with the army and created death squads to confront the left with the same methods of violence, and at the same time national fronts that included leftist gangs appeared. Her and coordinated her efforts together to stand up to the army, which caused a devastating war that left thousands dead and exhausted the country The intervention of the United States of America and its provision of material and military support to the Salvadoran government and the army with the aim of resisting the left and preventing them from attaining power led to prolonging the war, but after several years of killing and destruction, the two parties to the conflict realized the need for understanding to put an end to that tragedy, then complex and lengthy negotiations took place between the two sides under the supervision The United Nations ended with the signing of the Final Peace Agreement in 1992, bringing an end to a twelve-year war.