Forging Democracy from Below
Subtitle: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521783231
Subjects: Political economy; Political structures: democracy; Political participation; Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; El Salvador; Southern Africa; Government - Comparative; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Process - General; Political Science / General; Political participation--South Africa; Outlet; South Africa
First sentence: As the civil war in El Salvador drew to a close, peasants allied with the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation, FMLN) throughout the province of Usulutan raced to consolidate their claims to de facto property rights, enclosing occupied properties with barbed wire, taking over additional properties, and patrolling boundaries against the return of the erstwhile landlords.