The Salvadoran Civil War is predominantly fought between the government of El Salvador against a coalition of four leftist guerrilla groups and one communist group known as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) mainly between 1980 and 1992.
A violent insurgency had existed already in the 1970s.
The United States supports the Salvadoran government.
Cuba and other Communist states supports the guerrillas.
