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This digital document is an article from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on March 30, 2006. The length of the article is 1325 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EL SALVADOR'S MAYORS SIDESTEP GOVERNMENT ON UNIQUE FUEL DEAL WITH VENEZUELA.
Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: March 30, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale


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This digital document is an article from NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on July 25, 2002. The length of the article is 1719 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EL SALVADOR: DENGUE EPIDEMIC SPREADS, GOVERNMENT CRITICIZED FOR NOT TAKING EARLIER ACTION.
Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs (Newsletter)
Date: July 25, 2002
Publisher: Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute


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Completely updated and revised for this new edition, our unique electronic book on two CD-ROMs has an amazing collection of the finest federal documents and resources about El Salvador, providing encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of the country. This disc set provides a truly fantastic reference source, with over one hundred thousand pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat format! There is complete coverage of newsworthy material about El Salvador, including doing business, USAID, agriculture, CAFTA, earthquakes, President Bush visit, and more.This incredible and comprehensive series on the countries of the world contains material from the State Department, Department of Defense, White House, and cabinet agencies including Agriculture, Energy, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.There is complete information about geography, people, government, the economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.In addition to the nation-specific material, as a bonus we have included reports about every country on the globe, with 271 nations, dependent areas, and other entities identified by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA World Factbook is considered an invaluable "world encyclopedia" reference book.This incredible two CD-ROM set is packed with over 100,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material.Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed wit ... Read more

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Completely updated and revised for this new edition, our unique electronic book on two CD-ROMs has an amazing collection of the finest federal documents and resources about El Salvador, providing encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of the country. This disc set provides a truly fantastic reference source, with over one hundred thousand pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat format! There is complete coverage of newsworthy material about El Salvador, including doing business, USAID, agriculture, CAFTA, earthquakes, President Bush visit, and more.This incredible and comprehensive series on the countries of the world contains material from the State Department, Department of Defense, White House, and cabinet agencies including Agriculture, Energy, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.There is complete information about geography, people, government, the economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.In addition to the nation-specific material, as a bonus we have included reports about every country on the globe, with 271 nations, dependent areas, and other entities identified by the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA World Factbook is considered an invaluable "world encyclopedia" reference book.This incredible two CD-ROM set is packed with over 100,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material.Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed wit ... Read more

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Useful, especially if you don't find Tillyesque theorizing too annoying
This book summarizes eighty years of popular struggles in El Salvador.For those who made some effort to learn about the country when it was in the news (and the crosshairs of the Reagan administration) probably the most revealing sections are those describing the wave of protest in the late sixties (which spawned the mass organizations that became radicalized during the seventies) and the most recent wave of protests, the 2002 mobilizations opposing the privatization of the health care system.The uprising of the 1930s that was crushed by the 'Matanza', and the revolutionary wave of the late seventies and early eighties are likely to be more familiar.
Almeidahas a lot of history to get through, so, inevitably, the book is a little weak on the lively anecdote or detailed analysis of consciousness. At times I found this frustrating, at others I was impressed by what he managed to include.For example, I was interested to learn that the Sandinista triumph in Nicaragua helped galvanize the Salvadoran left into unifying.Almeida's theoretical frame for understanding the waves of protest draws heavily on the 'opportunity structure' rhetoric of Charles Tilly and his followers.As he notes, this theorizing is largely based on investigations of social movements in the wealthier countries.They emphasize the way more institutional access to government and electoral opportunities tends to spur the growth of movements, and he finds this to be the case.But looking at El Salvador, he also emphasizes the role of 'threat' in spurring mobilization.If organizations already exist, and the government becomes more repressive, their outlook may radicalize, and protest may intensify.This is basically what happened in 1931-32 and 1976-1981.This is good as it goes, but it is a little mechanistic--it feels at times that protests are just generated and repressed based on external factors.Fortunately, Almeida's skills as a historian frequently exceed the limits of this framework.
I would have liked to hear more both about the ways in which these protest movements related to trends in the wider world and the ways they relate to each other over time.Regarding the former, he talks about the way in which the 1930s mobilization related to the global picture, but, surprisingly, this is almost completely absent from the analysis of the sixties explosion, part of a worldwide wave of protest.As for the latter, the question of how actors understand their relationship to previous waves,this question seems particularly relevant and underexplored for the most recent wave (again, the 2002 protests).I've heard that, as in many countries, including neighboring Nicaragua, the end of the civil war helped unleash considerable resentment on the left about the ways the Leninist FMLN controlled movement organizations.This is in line with trends through Latin America, and, indeed, the world.At the same time, the FMLN has emerged as a credible electoral challenger--again, compared to Nicaragua, where the Sandinistas won national elections, but have completely distanced themselves from their revolutionary heritage, it seems like it has not entirely lost its way.The sorts of debates that are undoubtedly developing about these questions are largely absent from the text.Still, it should be emphasized that Almeida covers a lot of ground already, and the book is well worth reading.If you are a veteran of CISPES, and want to learn more about the long term history of El Salvador, consider adding it to your reading list.And if you are a student of social movements, you should probably read it too, because Almeida is right, that literature is much too heavily weighted towards the US and Western Europe. ... Read more

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"A clear and balanced presentation of the dilemmas associated with each of the four nations. A skillful cultural framework is provided in the first chapter, which serves as an overview." Foreign Affairs "A fine study. Anderson's reputation as a scholar and a Latin Americanist will be enhanced when this study has time to make its imprint." American Political Science Review ... Read more

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In this new edition, Montgomery offers a detailed account of the evolution of the war, a clear analysis of why Duarte's promises for peace and prosperity could not be fulfilled, and an evaluation of the electoral victory of the oligarchy in 1989. ... Read more

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El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, crime rates shot up. The number of murder victims surpassed wartime death tolls. Those who once feared the police and the state became frustrated by their lack of action. Peace was not what Salvadorans had hoped it would be. Citizens began saying to each other, "It's worse than the war."

El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy challenges the pronouncements of policy analysts and politicians by examining Salvadoran daily life as told by ordinary people who have limited influence or affluence. Anthropologist Ellen Moodie spent much of the decade after the war gathering crime stories from various neighborhoods in the capital city of San Salvador. True accounts of theft, assaults, and murders were shared across kitchen tables, on street corners, and in the news media. This postconflict storytelling reframed violent acts, rendering them as driven by common criminality rather than political ideology. Moodie shows how public dangers narrated in terms of private experience shaped a new interpretation of individual risk. These narratives of postwar violence—occurring at the intersection of self and other, citizen and state, the powerful and the powerless—offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy.

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On November 16, 1989, on the campus of El Salvador's University of Central America, six Jesuits and two women were murdered by members of the Salvadoran army, an army funded and trained by the United States. One of the murdered Jesuits was Ignacio Ellacuria, the university's Rector and a key, although controversial, figure in Salvadoran public life. From an opening account of this terrible crime, "Paying the Price" asks, 'Why were they killed and what have their deaths meant?' Answers come through Teresa Whitfield's detailed examination of Ellacuria's life and work. His story is told in juxtaposition with the crucial role played by the unravelling investigation of the Jesuits' murders within El Salvador's peace process. A complex and nuanced book, "Paying the Price" offers a history of the Church in El Salvador in recent decades, an analysis of Ellacuria's philosophy and theology, an introduction to liberation theology, and an account of the critical importance of the University of Central America. In the end, Whitfield's comprehensive picture of conditions in El Salvador suggest that the Jesuits' murders were almost inevitable.A crime that proved a turning point in El Salvador's civil war, the murders expressed the deep tragedy of the Salvadoran people beyond suffering the heartless cruelty, violence, and deceitfulness of a corrupt military and their patrons in the U.S. government. Whitfield draws on her extensive research of Jesuit archives and private papers, Ellacuria's diaries, documents declassified by the U.S. government, and 200 interviews conducted with sources ranging from Jesuits to Salvadoran military officers, U.S. officials and congressmen to human rights campaigners. Teresa Whitfield spent several years in El Salvador and the United States researching the murders, and has also produced a television documentary of the incident, broadcast in more than eight countries. She is currently a freelance writer and television producer based in London. ... Read more