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Letters From Latin America
Reviews of fiction by Salvadorian writer Claudia Hernandez and poetry by Cuban Reina Maria Rodriguez and Uruguayan Amanda Berenguer
IMPORTANT VOICE: Cuban poet Reina Maria Rodriguez

THE civil war in El Salvador, which ended nearly 30 years ago, was one of the most devastating and bloody conflicts in modern Latin American history.

It claimed the lives of at least 75,000 civilians and thousands of soldiers and insurgents during the 1980s and early 1990s in a country with a total population of five million.

Nearly a million people were forcefully displaced within the country or became refugees in Central America, Mexico, the United States and elsewhere as a result of the conflict.

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