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    El Salvador and the power of democratic change

    Author: Ross Ryan

    Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/23/2009

     

    The recent election in El Salvador is an example of those
    relatively rare times when substantial change in the direction and philosophy
    of government is achieved through peaceful democratic elections. As such, it
    deserves to be recognized as a victory for democracy itself.

    As Dr Victor Valle’s
    article in this month’s PCM argues, the tragic violence of the Salvadorian
    civil war has finally completed its transition from revolutionary struggle,
    through fragile peace, and now to a viable democracy. With the FMLN in power,
    the grievances between the various sectors of Salvadorian society have a real
    chance of being resolved though policy and parliamentary debate. More than
    likely, those committed to violence as a method of political persuasion will
    find that their supporters have left them, now that they have seen for
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    War by Other Means in El Salvador

    A Neoliberal Straitjacket

    "El Salvador is arguably our closest friend in the Western Hemisphere," wrote the U.S. ambassador in 2007. 2 At that point, the Salvadoran government had been controlled by the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party for almost two decades. ARENA was closely linked to the right-wing death squads that had murdered tens of thousands of peasants, students, workers, and religious people in the 1970s and 1980s. 3 After the war, the party continued to enjoy strong U.S. support because of its enthusiasm for neoliberalism, its support for the 2003 Iraq invasion, and its militarized approach to both crime and dissent.

    The 2009 election of Mauricio Funes threatened a change. But Funes tried hard to preserve an amicable relationship with Washington, and Washington reciprocated. The U.S. Embassy's current Economic Counselor, John Barrett, tells me that "Funes came in with a lot of good will," which was

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    History of El Salvador

    The history of El Salvador begins with several distinct groups of Mesoamerican people, especially the Pipil, the Lenca and the Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. In 1821, El Salvador achieved independence from Spain as part of the First Mexican Empire, only to further secede as part of the Federal Republic of Central America two years later. Upon the republic's independence in 1841, El Salvador became a sovereign state until forming a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater Republic of Central America, which lasted from 1895 to 1898.[1][2][3]

    In the 20th century, El Salvador endured chronic political and economic instability characterized by coups, revolts, and a succession of authoritarian rulers caused by the intervention of the United States. Persistent socioeconomic inequality and

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