Amazon.com description: Product Description: ***COURTESY OF TWOBEARS BOOKS*** American involvement in El Salvador has long been a cornerstone of the United States' Central American policy, and since Ronald Reagan's inauguration has represented an important aspect of our global foreign policy. This extensively revised and updated edition of a book that has been hailed as a major source on the crisis traces both the development of U.S. policy and the evolution of El Salvador's civil war. New to this edition is current information on the pivotal events of recent years, such as the 1985 elections, the kidnapping of President Duarte's daughter, Duarte's conflict with the military, U.S. sponsored bombing of Salvadoran territiory, and the rise of militant labor. Much of this material has never been published in English before and provides perspectives rarely seen in the United States. By allowing all the participants - rebels and rulers, military brass and church workers, President Duarte and his opponents - to speak in their own voices, this book brings Americans as close as they will ever come to the complex conflict in this troubled country.