The smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, El Salvador is chiefly remembered for the vicious civil war of the 1980s, when streams of harrowing news stories brought this tiny country to the attention of the world. For a decade, atrocity followed atrocity in a seemingly unstoppable sequence. Then in 1992, with both sides having fought each other to a standstill, Peace Accords were signed, and the attention of the world’s press moved elsewhere, leaving behind a brutalized country faced with the immense task of rebuilding itself.