The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador

Grenier, Yvon

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14833-2

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“…The Salvadoran government faced this problem in its war against FMLN (19080-1989). There, the government engaged in widespread killing of protestors, suspected leftists, and suspected supporters of FMLN because the opposition did not align with any particular communal group and the government, therefore, did not have a clear group to target with violence (Grenier 1999).…”

Section: The Identification Problem In Genocide Versus Politicidementioning

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Group identification, uncertainty, and the duration of genocide and politicide

Uzonyi

2020

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Episodes of genocide and politicide show remarkable variation in how long they last. Some end within months; others continue for decades. Why do some persist while others end soon after they start? I argue that uncertainty influences the duration of killing. When a government has difficulty identifying members of a target group, it is less certain that it has accomplished its violent goals vis-à-vis the group. Therefore, the more uncertain the government is about the source of the threat it faces, the longer its killing will last. Statistical analysis of all episodes of genocide and politicide from 1955 to 2011 supports these claims.

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Section: The Identification Problem In Genocide Versus Politicidementioning

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Group identification, uncertainty, and the duration of genocide and politicide

Uzonyi

2020

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“…28 Departing somewhat from this narrative, Yvon Grenier claims that most scholars specializing on this topic have overlooked the contributions of the politicized Catholic middle class (that is, students at the UCA and the Externado de San Jose, a Jesuit high school in San Salvador), and "various Catholic youth and lay organizations" to the "emergence and development of the insurgency." 29 Cynthia McClintock shares the views on the origins of the New Left insurgency formulated by most specialists on this subject but adds that "relative to the leaders of the FPL, the founders of the ERP were younger, more middle class, and usually formerly affiliated with the Christian Democrat Party rather than with the PCS." 30 In recent years, historians have shown a renewed interest in the trajectory of the Latin American New Left.…”

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Catholic Action, The Second Vatican Council, and The Emergence of The New Left in El Salvador (1950–1975)

Chávez

2014

The Americas

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In 1958, Roque Dalton, a young poet affiliated with the Communist Party of El Salvador (PCS), won the first prize in a poetry contest at the University of El Salvador. A few days later, members of Salvadoran Catholic University Action, a student organization known as ACUS or simply Catholic Action, published a demolishing but carelessly written critique of Dalton. The anonymous writer of an article titled Under the Empire of Vulgarity turned his disgust with the poem written by Dalton into a diatribe against Dalton's political persona. Dalton's raw allusions to double standards in the sexual morality of priests and his remarks about the Catholic practice of fasting seem to have especially upset the leaders of ACUS. A month later, ACUS published a rejoinder written by Dalton, along with excerpts of the controversial poem. In his retort, Dalton stated that ACUS dodged debates on substantial political and aesthetic issues by engaging in insults, quick and facile judgments, and rude pigeon-holing that closes all means of intellectual comprehension.

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