Author : Robert Armstrong
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Christian democracy
ISBN : 9780896081376
Two of the leading U.S. experts on Central America provide the definitive study of the history and reality of the situation in El Salvador through the early 1980s.
Author : Tommie Sue Montgomery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429977239
Since the first edition of this book appeared in 1982, El Salvador has experienced the most radical social change in its history. Ten years of civil war, in which a tenacious and creative revolutionary movement battled a larger, better-equipped, US-supported army to a standstill, have ended with 20 months of negotiations and a peace accord that promises to change the course of Salvadorean society and politics. This book traces the history of El Salvador, focusing on the oligarchy and the armed forces, that shaped the Salvadorean army and political system. Concentrating on the period since 1960, the author sheds new light on the US role in the increasing militarization of the country and the origins of the oligarchy-army rupture in 1979. Separate chapters deal with the Catholic church and the revolutionary organizations, which challenged the status quo after 1968. In the new edition, Dr Montgomery continues the story from 1982 to the present, offering a detailed account of the evolution of the war. She examines why Duarte's two inaugural promises, peace and economic prosperity could not be fulfilled and analyzes the electoral victory of the oligarchy in 1989. The final chapters closely follow the peace negotiations, ending with an assessment of the peace accords, and evaluate the future prospects for El Salvador and for the 1994 elections.
Author : Erik Ching
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1469628678
El Salvador's civil war began in 1980 and ended twelve bloody years later. It saw extreme violence on both sides, including the terrorizing and targeting of civilians by death squads, recruitment of child soldiers, and the death and disappearance of more than 75,000 people. Examining El Salvador's vibrant life-story literature written in the aftermath of this terrible conflict--including memoirs and testimonials--Erik Ching seeks to understand how the war has come to be remembered and rebattled by Salvadorans and what that means for their society today. Ching identifies four memory communities that dominate national postwar views: civilian elites, military officers, guerrilla commanders, and working class and poor testimonialists. Pushing distinct and divergent stories, these groups are today engaged in what Ching terms a "narrative battle" for control over the memory of the war. Their ongoing publications in the marketplace of ideas tend to direct Salvadorans' attempts to negotiate the war's meaning and legacy, and Ching suggests that a more open, coordinated reconciliation process is needed in this postconflict society. In the meantime, El Salvador, fractured by conflicting interpretations of its national trauma, is hindered in dealing with the immediate problems posed by the nexus of neoliberalism, gang violence, and outmigration.
Author : Ralph Sprenkels
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0268103283
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country’s second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvador’s FMLN from armed insurgency to a competitive political party. At the end of the war in 1992, the historical ties between insurgent veterans enabled the FMLN to reconvert into a relatively effective electoral machine. However, these same ties also fueled factional dispute and clientelism. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Ralph Sprenkels examines El Salvador’s revolutionary movement as a social field, developing an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of insurgent movements in general and their aftermath in particular, while weaving in the personal stories of former revolutionaries with a larger historical study of the civil war and of the transformation process of wartime forces into postwar political contenders. This allows Sprenkels to shed new light on insurgency’s persistent legacies, both for those involved as well as for Salvadoran politics at large. In documenting the shift from armed struggle to electoral politics, the book adds to ongoing debates about contemporary Latin America politics, the “pink tide,” and post-neoliberal electoralism. It also charts new avenues in the study of insurgency and its aftermath.
Author : James Dunkerley
Publisher : Verso
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
The Long War is a serious, radical critique of the poltical economy and recent history of El Salvador, set in the context of the troubled history of the entire Central Amercan region and detailing in full the extent of US intervention and its importancce as a destabilising factor. With the addition of a postscript, this new edition brings the narrative fully up to date.
Author : Cynthia Arnson
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521010504
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Author : Jeffrey L. Gould
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822342281
An investigation of the January 1932 massacre of thousands of rural laborers in El Salvador and its long-term cultural and political consequences.
Author : Hugh Byrne
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555876067
"Study of strategies employed by the two sides in the recent civil war. Argues neither side was able to integrate economic, political, and military strategies into a grand strategy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Author : Cynthia McClintock
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1878379763
Why were El Salvador's FMLN and Peru's Shining Path able to mount such serious revolutionary challenges in the 1980s and early 1990s? And why were they able to do so despite the fact that their countries' elected governments were widely considered democratic? These two guerrilla groups were very different, but both came close to success. To explain why, the author examines the complex interplay among political and economic factors, the nature of the revolutionary organization, and international actors. McClintock emphasizes that the end of the Cold War does not mean the end of revolutionary groups, and that the United States can play an important role in determining the outcome of future confrontations. The book concludes with practical policy options for the U.S. government as it looks to foster peace and democracy in the western hemisphere.
