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Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action.Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not. ... Read more

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EXCELLENT BOOK!!
Wood's book is an excellent weaving togther of the of strands of the land question in Usulutan department.The use of before-the-revolution-and-after "agrarian reform" maps constructed by former rebel participants and supporters is particularly ingenious.

She does a great job of even-handedly assessing a still contentious issue in the historiography of U.S. foreign policy.

She treated her interview subjects with great care and fairness, and tried to get at the roots of what made the Salvadoran conflict a civil war.

A criticism is that she appears to accept to eagerly reports of rebel arms transfers along the Usulutan coastline. Hundreds of millions the GOES received from the U.S. made those canoes full of rifles for the FMLN from Nicaragua pale in comparison.

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A good read
I found it to be an easy read and very informative.Her methodology goes to the people and the findings are interesting.I recommend it. ... Read more

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Inconvenient truths about US-backed state terror.
Right-wingers are often trying to 'adapt' history to suit the needs of the power elite.In Chile, the election of Allende threatened the profits of transnational corporations like Anaconda Copper.In this book, Dorfman and others reveal the ways in which the power elite of the U.S. operate like the mafia and protect their 'turf' through violence, with 'statesmen' like Henry Kissinger being one of the head musclemen The Trials of Henry Kissinger.There are even authors who have themselves been involved with this thuggery, like John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
The publisher 'Ocean Sur' has a vast collection on the ugly history of the U.S. in Latin America, and the heroic resistance and resiliance of its people.Today, Michelle Bachelet is the president of Chile.Bachelet was tortured by Pinochet's regime, and her father was killed by it.These facts, and the facts of thousands of other Chileans being brutalized through the evil of the U.S. empire have not been given the airing they deserve.'El Otro 11 de Septiembre' is an important effort to revive that history that some would like to rationalize or send down the 'memory hole.'
Here are some other resources about events and people we should never forget:
Salvador Allende [Import NTSC Region 0] Patricio Guzman
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz
Las Ultimas Composiciones
Missing
When the Mountains Tremble
Romero (IMPORT)
Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization
Nacla Report on the Americas

re-writting history
Allende won with only the 36% of the votes, andtried to create in the southern tip of Southamerica a new Cuba, in the cold war era.
Leftwings are experts in "adapting" the history to their convenience. Chilean armed forces liberated Chile from Communism. The facts shall be analysed within their context, back in 1973, when the country was filled by cuban "advisors", training terrorist to prepare a civil war. ... Read more

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El Salvador Diplomatic Handbook (World Business, Investment and Government Library) ... Read more

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Towards a Society that Serves Its People
This book displays works of 4 martyred Jesuit priests in El Salvador. The book is written from a perspective of Liberation Theology/Psychology. Not only is it a good summary of each of those arts, it also is an incisive look at society, pertinent not only to a war-torn El Salvador and Central America of many years ago, but also to the world and society now -- perhaps even more so. At times the book is heavy reading -- but well worth the effort. Iwould recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the world they live in! The fact that the authors were all martyred by assassins' bullets makes the work even more inspiring. ... Read more

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The Politics of Violence develops an interdisciplinary feminist perspective grounded in original ethnographic research on everyday forms of violence in El Salvador. Hume challenges dominant theories of violence through foregrounding subaltern vocabularies that have been historically ignored in debates on violence.

• Unites a critical analysis of theories of violence with original ethnographic research on its use and broader responses to its different manifestations
• Makes an important theoretical contribution to debates on violence, through developing in-depth accounts of the violence of everyday life from a feminist perspective
• Examines the vocabularies of violence of those who live with it on an everyday basis, locating these vocabularies in a critical analysis of the relations of domination that have shaped Salvadoran history
  

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A memoir of heroism and sacrifice in the face of the political brutality of El Salvador in the 1980s. ... Read more

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It was a fabuluse, heart wrenching book.
I haven't come across a book this good for years. I encourage you to read it. It well change your life. My heart goes out to the author. What an amazing set of stories he wrote down and shared with the world. ... Read more

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Baloyra argues that the deepening American involvement in what is basically a domestic conflict between Salvadorans has failed to eliminate the obstructionism and violence of the ... Read more

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A must read for Central Americanists
This work, by late-professor Baloyra, is one of the most complete and well written accounts of the military-political struggles in El Salvador during the so-called Central American Crisis of the 1980s. Its combination of history and politics is essential reading for any student of the area and/or time period. ... Read more

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Keeping the Peace explores the new multidimensional role that the United Nations has played in peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding over the past few years. By examining the paradigm-setting cases of Cambodia and El Salvador, and drawing lessons from these UN "success stories", the book identifies more effective ways for the international community to address conflict in the post-Cold War era. This book is especially timely given its focus on multidimensional peace operations, the most likely role for the UN in coming years. ... Read more

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El Salvador Ecology & Nature Protection Handbook ... Read more

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Combining photographs, poetry and text, the authors attempt to capture the enduring dignity, courage and suffering of the civilians caught in the middle of the struggle for power between the US supported Salvadoran government and the leftist popular movement, FMLN. ... Read more

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El Salvador Industrial and Business Directory ... Read more

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Drawing on interviews with trainers, U.S. Embassy personnel, and an extensive review of peridicals and books, the author concludes that a causal relationship between U.S. training efforts and improvements in human rights and other values is difficult, if not impossible, to establish. ... Read more