After the 1992 peace accords put an end to more than a decade of civil war, Salvadorans worked to rebuild a reformed society. The military was downsized and purged; a civilian police force was established, and the FMLN guerrilla force became a legal political party. El Salvador has experienced high levels of crime following the war, however, and poverty and inequality persist.

In the early 1990s, the Latin America Working Group focused on calling for declassification of US documents on El Salvador for the UN Truth Commission and helped to organize pressure for full implementation of the peace accords. More recently, LAWG has worked to increase US aid for disaster relief for a series of natural disasters, including the 2001 earthquakes and subsequent drought, and to increase and improve US development aid.