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• El Salvador: Salvadorian Revolution and Counter-Revolution

  Salvadoran Revolution, Women Combatants

  1 March 2016

  Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador. By Jocelyn Veteran. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013, 304 pages, $26.95 paperback.
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  IN WOMEN IN War: The Micro-Processes of Mobilization in El Salvador, sociologist Jocelyn Viterna investigates the (…)

• El Salvador: Salvadorian Revolution and Counter-Revolution

  El Salvador: Twenty years since radical priests murdered

  14 November 2009, by HEALY Barry

  At about 2am on November 16, 1989, Salvadoran soldiers burst into the home of six Jesuit priests teaching at the University of Central America. They proceeded to slaughter them.
  Father Ignacio Ellacuria was the main target, according to evidence gathered after the 1992 peace accords that ended (…)

• El Salvador: Salvadorian Revolution and Counter-Revolution

  1970-1990: The war of counter-insurgency and the crucifixion of El Salvador

  April 2002, by CHOMSKY Noam

  Noam Chomsky on the ultra-violent war of the right-wing regime in El Salvador against grassroots resistance of workers, peasants and liberation theologists – socialist clergymen and women.
  For many years, repression, torture and murder were carried on in El Salvador by dictators installed and (…)