Violence And Unrest In El Salvador In The 1970's

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Violence and unrest began to escalate throughout El Salvador during the early seventies, as the 1972 presidential election witnessed the democratically elected Jose Napoleon Duarte replacement by the military and oligarchy backed Arturo Armando Molina (Anderson 2011). This trend of democratic repression and lack of transparency served to uphold the state’s legacy of economic, social, and political inequality which, Anderson notes, “erupted into revolutionary flames” (2011). The 1970s can be seen as the kindling of this fire, as political organizing centered around liberation theology and unionization became factors in the spark that set El Salvador ablaze, with women and men alike, serving as agentive incendiaries.
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