El Salvador

Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez was established as president of El Salvador in 1931 after a coup overthrew the governing president, Arturo Araujo. Martinez was then chosen by army officials to preside due to his determined character and military experience; as a result, he ruled from 1931-1944. However, El Salvador’s constitution only allows a 5-year term and a same ruler cannot govern two consecutive periods. In order to extend his presidency, he passed a bill and changed the constitution to…

citizens, and a peace treaty was formed twelve years later to permit this from ever happening again. The Cold War negatively impacted El Salvador more so than positively because the communist government in Russia influenced the Salvadoran government to violate the human rights of the citizens, which ended up creating a civil war…

Luke Myers Professor Stoddard ARH 106 27 January 2015 Analysis of an original work of art Santiago El Grande by Salvador Dali Much can be said about about this painting. It is extraordinary, a masterwork, and one of Dali’s most famous. I was lucky enough to see it when it was at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Despite holding one of the largest collections of his works worldwide, I spent most of my time at the museum under Santiago. Under him, because everything about this work…

My mother, Maria, was born and raised in San Salvador. San Salvador is the capital city of El Salvador, is the smallest country in Central America, and for her childhood and teenage years, the country was in a civil war. This civil war started in 1980 and lasted 12 years. In the summer of 1990, Maria decided to visit her eldest sister, Fatima, for the winter holidays. Fatima and her first daughter, Karla, had first immigrated illegally to Houston, Texas in 1983 with the help of Mexican Coyotes –…

Poverty taught me to make the most of the little I had in El Salvador. Through my daily struggles I learned to appreciate what truly matters most. For one, I learned to be resourceful and appreciative. I remember playing soccer in the dirt streets of my neighborhood with an old rag ball and feeling pure happiness. As I grew up though, I realized that life may not become much more joyful, but it could certainly become much more comfortable. These struggles deeply impacted my character and…

them all. I was not going to do anything here [in El Salvador] . . .I had nothing to hope for” (Abrego, 2014, p. 33). In Esperanza’s story her husband stopped providing for the family and she told Abrego, “ . . . I had to go around borrowing money, and I couldn’t keep doing it all the time . . . That’s why I made [the] decision [to migrate] (Abrego, 2014, p. 39). Amanda, who was better off financially and lived a more tolerable lifestyle in El Salvador than Gloria and Esperanza, lost economic…

women and women’s issue was crucial in the post-war development of Salvadoran feminist organizations and advent of feminist and gender consciousness. In the next section, I will provide a literature that covers a gendered analysis of post-civil war El…

the elections that were believed to be rigged, similar to the 1977 elections depicted in Romero. During the 1980s, when Romero was being produced, the El Salvador Civil War was ongoing and deliberate targeting of civilians by death squads was a common occurrence as depicted in Romero.…

and houses as we struggled for financial stability. One day, my mother received news that one of her brothers was coming to the United States from El Salvador. She had not seen any of her brothers since she left El Salvador at the age of four, so she was excited to be reunited with him. My mother bought a house around the time he arrived from El Salvador, and he, having no place to live, moved in with my family. From then on, this first chapter of my life would be filled with pain, confusion,…

four children; a young men who had the urge to survive and escape the brutal and genocide Guerilla (peasants vs. salvadorean army) of 1979. This extraordinary person is my father, his name is Davidio (David) Garcia. The Civil War took place in El Salvador in 1979-1992. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation (FMNL) drafted young boys and girls between the ages of twelve- eighteen with (for those who were promised land or power) or without consent. Most of this people were from the “Pueblos” who…