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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 4. March 23 1981

History of Rebellion

History of Rebellion

A peasant uprising in 1931, bloodily repressed at the cost of c. 30,000 lives, ensured a strong military presence in the government for the next forty-eight years. The oligarchs of the "Fourteen Families" meanwhile made such a successful business out of coffee-growing that they were actually able to keep US companies out of the country (not that the people fared any the better), and recently have diversified into industry: their workforce is supplied by peasants fleeing to the towns from fighting in rural areas. Using massive electoral fraud, the government "won" elections in 1972 and 1977.

Photo of children eating food in El Salvador

Slum children in El Salvador.

Photo of El Salvador soldiers

Government troops