Authoritarian El Salvador
Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
In December 1931, El Salvador's civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation's first democratically elected president, and although no one could have foreseen the result, the coup led to five decades of uninterrupted military rule, the longest run in modern Latin American history. Furthermore, six weeks after coming to power, the new military regime oversaw the crackdown on a peasant rebellion in western El Salvador that is one of the worst episodes of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-268-07699-3
- EAN: 9780268076993
- Produktnummer: 20595639
- Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 488 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'608 KB
Über den Autor
Erik Ching is professor of history at Furman University. He is coauthor with Héctor Lindo Fuentes of Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980.
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