Nonviolent insurrection in El Salvador
Subtitle: the fall of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
By: Patricia Parkman.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Hernández Martínez, Maximiliano; Passive resistance -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century; El Salvador -- History -- Revolution, 1944
Description: Describes one example of a Latin American tradition of nonviolent political struggle, brazos caidos (literally, fallen arms) which specifies peaceful direct action, as in huelga (strike) de brazos caidos (which is a civic strike). [Introduction].
Notes: Bibliography: p. 153-160.
Includes index.