During the 1980s, when political conflicts in El Salvador exploded into Salvadoran civil war, many people fled to the capital, since most of the fighting occurred elsewhere (San Salvador itself was not directly affected by the war until the final offensive of 1989).
During the 1980s, when political conflicts in El Salvador exploded into Salvadoran civil war, many people !fled to the capital, since most of the fighting o:ccurred elsewhere (San Salvador itself wa:s n.ot directly aff.ected by the war until the final offensive of 1989).