Enrique Alvarez Cordova: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary

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Enrique Alvarez Cordova: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary and Gentleman
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Enrique Alvarez CÃ³rdova was the son of one of El Salvadorâ€™s ruling families. Intelligent, charismatic and above all wealthy, he had nothing to gainâ€”and a great deal to loseâ€”by courting revolution. Yet this young man with all the advantages did just that. Impressed by the poverty and miserable existence of the rural population, Alvarez set about making a change. He spent most of his adult life working for reform within the constraints of the existing system, serving as minister of agriculture under three governments. He turned his own ranch, El Jobo, into a successful workersâ€™ cooperative to convince the ruling class that agrarian reform was possible and even profitable. In the end, however, he found that fundamental change was simply beyond the reach of such efforts. Embracing armed struggle as a last resort, he ultimately became one of the revolution's first casualties. Centering on El Salvadorâ€™s political landscape, this biography details the life of one of the nationâ€™s little known revolutionaries. The body examines the motivations behind Alvarezâ€™s choice to become a traitor to his class and embrace political reform, first through his work within the government itself and later as president of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), the countryâ€™s primary radical movement. Through this lens, the work also describes El Salvadorâ€™s political evolution, illuminating the countryâ€™s internal situation during the 1970s and early 1980s. The government-condoned assassination of Alvarez and five of his FDR colleagues in November 1980 ended the last hope of avoiding an armed conflict. Within two months of the assassinations, El Salvador was plunged into a civil war that would last for the next 11 years. Other than a few official legal documents, the work is compiled from interviews and testimony of those who knew Enrique Alvarez CÃ³rdova, thus providing a contemporary, firsthand perspective. The work is also indexed.
Country USA
Brand McFarland
Manufacturer McFarland
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2010556255
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780786424733
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	McFarland
Manufacturer	McFarland
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2010556255
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780786424733
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Enrique Alvarez Cordova: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary and Gentleman

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