El Salvador, the Face of RevolutionTwo 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. |
Contents
Where Coffee Is King | 1 |
Great Expectations | 33 |
The Writing on the Wall | 59 |
A Madness Seized the Land | 85 |
In Search of a Center | 111 |
Ten Bodies a Day | 137 |
The War Is On | 159 |
Our Mountains Are the People | 183 |
The Wider War | 211 |
Footnotes | 235 |
Appendix | 252 |
Appendix | 260 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Acronyms | 274 |
Common terms and phrases
administration agrarian reform Aguilares Amnesty International archbishop armed forces called campesinos capital Carter Cayetano Carpio Central America Chalatenango Church civilian coffee Colonel countryside coup D'Aubuisson death December democratic revolutionary economic El Salvador elections electoral Estudios Centroamericanos FAPU February FECCAS FMLN FMLN/FDR foreign García Guatemala guerrilla Guillermo Ungo Honduras human rights International joint venture José junta killed labor land reform Latin America leaders Majano March Martí Martínez ment Mexico military aid million investment Molina Monseñor movement murdered National Guard Nicaragua officers oligarchy opposition ORDEN peasants percent political popular organizations population president priests Reagan Report repression revolution Romero Roque Dalton Rutilio Rutilio Grande Salvador Cayetano Carpio Salvadorean Salvadorean army San Salvador Sánchez Hernández Sandinista sectors security forces social soldiers strike struggle tion troops U.S. aid U.S. embassy U.S. policy Ungo Union United vador village Washington Post workers York