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 |
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