1960 Salvadoran coup d'état event
also: coup in October, counter-coup, bloodless coup, ousted General Carlos Romero
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United Statescountry · 2El Salvadorcountry · 1Fabio Castilloperson · 1Carlos Romeroperson · 1National University of El Salvadororganization · 1
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classrooms, laboratories, beat up school presidents, killed a librarian, bayoneted students, and raped dozens of young women. Finally, when the students amassed anew, troops actually opened fire, killing many of them. The bloody incident wa…
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which the U.S. was involved in. Dr. Fabio Castillo, a former president of the National University and a member of the ousted government, testified years later before U.S. Congress that the process of overthrowing the reform government, the …
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They are equally, if not more so, involved because the person pulling the trigger would have no clue how to get to the people without the CIA's involvement. In October 1979, a group of younger military officers, repelled by the frequent mas…
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from the presidency and took power in a bloodless coup. A number of prominent civilian political figures were given positions in the new administration, which proclaimed an impressive program of reforms. But it was not to be. The young and …