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Throughout the 80s, American activists and volunteers put themselves in the line of fire between government troops and the civilian population they were massacring. On the other hand, the US. government was training and arming El Salvador’s elite battalions and pouring military aid onto the country to support the right wing. Thomas Chappel traveled all over El Salvador to tell how the peasant campesinos of the FMLN fought the US.-backed regime to a tragic stalemate in the course of 12 years. With the signing of the peace accords in 1992, the FMLN became a political party and began to organize a social movement in Salvador to work for change. Today, the country’s economy is in shambles and the country is being flooded by hundreds of deported L.A. gang members – often the children of refugees who fled the terror of the 1980s. The scars of civil war are everywhere.

Canada - 2004 - 1 h 38 mn - DV - Colour

Director Thomas Chappel Script Scott Lehane, Thomas Chappel Camera Jurek Osterfeld Sound Chris Cobain Editing Thomas Chappel Narrator Jack Ruttle

Production Lehane Associates, #1867, 4th Concession West, RR#1, Ontario, L0R 2B0 Troy, Canada Tél : +1 519 647 2445 Fax : +1 519 647 2752 E-mail : scottlehane@earthlink.net Co-Production Stonecutter Productions

Sales Lehane Associates, #1867, 4th Concession West, RR#1, Ontario, L0R 2B0 Troy, Canada Tél : +1 519 647 2445 Fax : +1 519 647 2752 E-mail : scottlehane@earthlink.net