The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador by William Stanley
The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador

William Stanley

The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador

Political Science/Latin America Studies

William Stanley

341 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics tense medium-paced

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In 1932 security forces in El Salvador murdered 25,000 peasants and workers. Between 1978 and 1991 the Salvadoran government killed an additional 50,000 civilians. Death squads maimed and tortured their victims, who included labor organizers, pri...

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