СКАЧАТЬ
Trade Union Federation of Salvadoran Workers (Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños)
FESAL
National Family Health Survey (Encuesta Nacional de Salud Familiar)
FESPAD
Foundation for the Study of the Application of Law (Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho)
FGR
Public Prosecutor’s Office (Fiscalía General de la República)
FISDL
Social Investment Fund for Local Development (Fondo Inversión Social para el Desarrollo Local)
FLACSO
Latin American School of Social Sciences (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales)
FMLN
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional)
Foro
Forum for Economic and Social Consultation (Foro de Concertación Económica y Social)
FOSALUD
Fund for Health Solidarity (Fondo Solidario para la Salud)
FPL
Popular Forces of Liberation (Fuerzas Populares de Liberación)
FUNDE
National Foundation for Development (Fundación Nacional para el Desarrollo)
FUSADES
Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social)
GANA
Grand Alliance for National Unity (Gran Alianza Nacional)
GDR
Democratic Revolutionary Government (Gobierno Democrático Revolucionario)
GOES
government of El Salvador
GTA
Antigang Task Forces (Grupos de Tarea Antipandillas)
IACHR
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
IDB
Inter-American Development Bank
IDHUCA
Human Rights Institute at the University of Central America (Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la UCA)
IIRAIRA
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
ILO
International Labor Organization
IML
Institute of Forensic Medicine (Instituto de Medicina Legal)
INAZUCAR
National Sugar Institute (Instituto Nacional de Azúcar)
INCAFE
National Coffee Institute (Instituto Nacional del Café)
INS
Immigration and Naturalization Service
ISDEMU
Salvadoran Institute for the Advancement of Women (Instituto Salvadoreño para el Desarrollo de la Mujer)
ISI
import substitution industrialization
ISSS
Salvadoran Social Security Institute (Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social)
IUDOP
University of Central America Institute for Public Opinion (Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública Universidad Centroamericana, “José Simeón Cañas”)
IVA
value-added tax (impuesto al valor agregado)
JVE
Electoral Review Board (Junta de Revisión Electoral)
LAR
ARENA League to the Rescue (Liga Arenera al Rescate)
MAC
Authentic Christian Movement (Movimiento Auténtico Cristiano)
MCC
Millennium Challenge Corporation
MINUSAL
United Nations Mission in El Salvador (Misión de las Naciones Unidas en El Salvador)
MIPLAN
Ministry of Planning and Coordination of Economic and Social Development (Ministerio de Planificación y Coordinación del Desarrollo Económico y Social)
MNR
National Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario)
MPR-12
Popular Resistance Movement of October 12 (Movimiento Popular de Resistencia 12 de Octubre)
MPSC
Popular Social Christian Movement (Movimiento Popular Social Cristiana)
MS-13
Mara Salvatrucha
NACLA
North American Congress on Latin America
NGO
nongovernmental organization
OAS
French Secret Army Organization (Organisation de l’Armée Secrète)
University of Central America (Universidad Centroamericano, “Jose Simeón Cañas”)
UDN
Nationalist Democratic Union (Unión Democráta Nacional)
UEA
Executive Anti–Drug Trafficking Unit of the National Police (Unidad Ejecutiva Antinarcotráfico)
UES
University of El Salvador (Universidad de El Salvador)
UNDP
United Nations Development Program
Unidos
United for Solidarity (Unidos por la Solidaridad)
UNO
National Opposition Union (Unión Oposición Nacional)
UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
USAID
U.S. Agency for International Development
Introduction
Peacebuilding, Elites, and the Problem of Capture
The population does not value peace as a synonym for progress. Peace for most people does not make sense because it has no social content, or the content lacks justice. The impact of the neoliberal transition of the past fifteen years has laid a foundation for society that trends toward authoritarianism rather than democracy.
—Salvador Sánchez Cerén, October 20061
ON OCTOBER 15, 1979, a group of junior officers overthrew El Salvador’s military government with the intent of forestalling a revolution. Decades of systematic repression, socioeconomic exclusion, and the collapse of legal political space in the early 1970s had resulted in the mobilization of guerrilla organizations and affiliated social groups that wished to dismantle the existing political and economic order in one of Central America’s most unequal and violent societies. The subsequent juntas, composed of military officers and civilians, had hoped to loosen the military’s grip on the state and the oligarchy’s grip on the economy. The successive juntas failed to achieve the reforms it deemed necessary to prevent the escalation of violence, reforms that threatened the country’s most powerful economic elites. The levels of state violence increased and, by 1980, El Salvador was a country at war with itself.