Colonels Adolfo Arnoldo Majano Ramos and Jaime Abdul Gutierrez Avendano, of the Army of El Salvador—with support from the United states—overthrow military dictator General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena.
Postscript: This event began a 12-year long civil war.
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References:
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 126.
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