Central American conflicts of the 1980s

E272176

Cold War conflict regional conflict series of armed conflicts

The Central American conflicts of the 1980s were a series of intertwined civil wars and insurgencies—most notably in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala—driven by Cold War rivalries, authoritarian regimes, and social inequality, and marked by widespread violence and human rights abuses.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Central American conflicts of the 1980s canonical	1
Guatemalan Civil War	1
Soviet–U.S. confrontation in Central America	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cold War conflict ⓘ regional conflict ⓘ series of armed conflicts ⓘ
characterizedBy	civil wars ⓘ counterinsurgency campaigns ⓘ displacement of populations ⓘ forced disappearances ⓘ guerrilla warfare ⓘ human rights abuses ⓘ insurgencies ⓘ massacres of civilians ⓘ state terrorism ⓘ
documentedBy	Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission ⓘ UN Truth Commission for El Salvador ⓘ surface form: Truth Commission for El Salvador
endedBy	Chapultepec Peace Accords ⓘ Esquipulas II Accord ⓘ surface form: Esquipulas Peace Agreement Guatemalan peace accords ⓘ
endTime	early 1990s ⓘ
estimatedDeaths	over 200000 people ⓘ
hasCause	Cold War rivalries ⓘ U.S.–Soviet geopolitical competition ⓘ anti-communist containment policy ⓘ authoritarian regimes ⓘ land concentration ⓘ political repression ⓘ revolutionary movements ⓘ social inequality ⓘ
hasContext	U.S. foreign policy in Latin America ⓘ anti-communism ⓘ doctrine of national security ⓘ liberation theology ⓘ
hasPart	Contra War ⓘ Guatemalan Civil War ⓘ Nicaraguan Revolution ⓘ Salvadoran Civil War ⓘ civil conflict in Costa Rica ⓘ civil conflict in Honduras ⓘ
involved	Contras ⓘ Costa Rica ⓘ Cuba ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Sandinista National Liberation Front ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States right-wing death squads ⓘ
locatedIn	Central America ⓘ
mainTheater	El Salvador ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ
result	mass refugee flows ⓘ peace processes in late 1980s and early 1990s ⓘ regional destabilization ⓘ
significantPeriod	1980s ⓘ
startTime	late 1970s ⓘ
supportedBy	Reagan administration ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Armed Forces of El Salvador → conflict → Central American conflicts of the 1980s ⓘ

Guatemalan Americans → majorMigrationCause → Central American conflicts of the 1980s ⓘ

this entity surface form: Guatemalan Civil War

Second Cold War → hasKeyEvent → Central American conflicts of the 1980s ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet–U.S. confrontation in Central America