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A field of corn grows on the side of a hill in a civilian area in conflict for control between guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, ERP, and the Salvadoran army in San Miguel department, El Salvador, August 1, 1983. The country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.