El Salvador Volume 1: Crisis, Coup and Uprising 1970–1983 — Repression and Insurgency
What happens when a government’s attempt to suppress opposition strengthens the insurgency it is trying to defeat?
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Using El Salvador Volume 1: Crisis, Coup and Uprising 1970–1983 by David François as our lens, this episode investigates how political exclusion, military repression, economic inequality, and failed reform transformed social unrest into organized armed conflict.
François traces the formation of the FMLN, the development of its military strategy, the institutional weaknesses of the Salvadoran armed…
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