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| 1990, May |
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| Alarmed by FMLN successes and fearing an end to U.S. military aid, Cristiani agreed to go back to the peace table, setting a cease-fire for September. Talks broke down quickly, and fighting resumed by winter. | 1 |
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| 1992, Jan. 16 |
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| After 21 months of negotiations, the FMLN and the government signed a peace treaty in Mexico City. Under the agreement the FMLN would disarm and become a political party, the military would be cut in half, human rights violators would be purged, a national civilian police force would be created, U.S.-trained counterinsurgency forces would be disbanded, political prisoners would be freed, and land would be granted to combatants in the conflict. | 2 |
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| Jan. 23 |
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| An amnesty law was passed for most combatants, excluding the most serious human rights violators. | 3 |
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| Feb. 1 |
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| An armed truce went into effect. | 4 |
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| Dec. 15 |
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| Peace was formally proclaimed to end the 12-year civil war. Seventy-five thousand people had perished in the conflict. | 5 |
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