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Love That Produces Hope: The Thought Of Ignacio Ellacuria
Liturgical Press, 2006
Father Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J., president of the University of Central America, leading Latin American philosopher, and liberation theologian, was assassinated with five Jesuit companions and two women on November 16, 1989. Love That Produces Hope brings together leading authorities on key aspects of Ellacuría’s thought. The book introduces readers to the groundbreaking life and thought of ...
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Through Her Eyes: Women's Theology from Latin America
Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006
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Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization 7 reviews
Noam Chomsky, Heinz Dieterich, ...
Ocean Press, 2002
Review of U.S. hegemony
+ Chomsky's Latin America
+ an overview of the dreadful record in Latin America
+ Not the best Chomsky book, but still very good
+ Brief, readable sketch
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Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005 (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) 1 review
Paul D. Almeida
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008
Useful, especially if you don't find Tillyesque theorizing too annoying
This book summarizes eighty years of popular struggles in El Salvador. For those who made some effort to learn about the country when it was in the news (and the crosshairs of the Reagan administration) probably the most revealing sections are those describing the wave of protest in the late ...
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Contra Cross: Insurgency And Tyranny in Central America, 1979-1989 7 reviews
William R. Meara
US Naval Institute Press, 2006
A Foot Soldier in Central America
+ Contra Cross
+ From retired CIA officer Duane Clarridge
+ Tales of a Cold War Grunt
+ Contrarian Lessons in Surrogate Warfare
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Writings for a Liberation Psychology4 reviews
Ignacio Martín-Baró
Harvard University Press, 1996
Canonize This Man, Please
+ Groundbreaking working in liberation psychology
+ revolutionary writings by a man of courage....
+ A must reading for any caring, thinking human being!
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College Drinking: Salvadoran Refugee Women in Costa Rica
Robin Ormes Quizar
Bergin & Garvey, 1998
The daily lives and the testimonios of the refugees serve as an eloquent expression of the multidimensional feminism that has developed in Latin America. In contrast to mainstream feminism in the United States that focuses primarily on the power relationships between men and women, the concern of Latin American feminism is with power asymmetries in socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and religion, as ...
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Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador1 review
John L. Hammond
Rutgers University Press, 1998
The future of education and healthcare may look like this...
This book is an inspired, readable, and labor of love account of the growth of popular education in El Salvador. The writer shares the continuing challenges faced and rewards shared by students, teachers, and those who teach the teachers. As in El Salvador, the US, especially Texas, ...
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One Day of Life7 reviews
Manlio Argueta
Vintage, 1991
Great Condition
+ A good introduction to the Struggle of the poor in El Salvad
+ Review of the book "One Day of Life"
I would recommend this seller to anyone. Although, the book was used it was still in great condition as described by the seller.
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Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos6 reviews
Jos Ignacio Lpez Vigil
Curbstone Press, 1995
A Book You'll Never Forget
+ Good insight into what really happened in ES
+ POR CORAJE
+ historia de la radio venceremos
+ excelente
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On The Front Line: Guerilla Poems of El Salvador1 review
Curbstone Press, 1995
Voices of struggle and hope
"On the Front Line: Guerrilla Poems of El Salvador" is, as the title indicates, a poetry anthology with a very specific focus. This book has been edited and translated by Claribel Alegria and Darwin J. Flakoll. Alegria is a distinguished poet who grew up on El Salvador, and Flakoll (who has since ...
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The Massacre at El Mozote10 reviews
Mark Danner
Vintage, 1994
A lesson for our times
+ SHOCKING
+ A Detailed Report on a Little Known Event
+ Highly Recommended
+ Very good book, so-so prose
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El Salvador (DoubleTake Book)3 reviews
Larry Towell
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Wonderful Photojournalism
+ An excellect pictoral representation of a great people
+ A different perspective
I would recommend this book to anyone who is moved by high quality documentary black and white photogaphy. Or anyone who is interested in the culture of El Salvador. As a photography student, I know how many thousands of exposures it takes to get one image that has a truly unique perspective and ...
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Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in ...1 review
Elisabeth Jean Wood
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Recommend reading it. Excellent source of background...
...information on the civil wars that took place in both countries. Explain theory of transition to democracy from below using the "most different" method (using two unlike countries that had a similar transition).
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Hear My Testimony: Maria Teresa Tula Human Rights Activist of El Salvador4 reviews
Maria Teresa Tula
South End Press, 2009
A very courageous person
+ Courageous woman uncovers torture, coverups and femicide
+ It opened my eyes to the human atroscities in El Salvador
+ this book should be read by any person of domestic violence,
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Enrique Alvarez: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary And Gentlemen
John W. Lamperti
McFarland & Company, 2006
Enrique Alvarez Córdova was the son of one of El Salvador’s ruling families. Intelligent, charismatic and above all wealthy, he had nothing to gain—and a great deal to lose—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 ...
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Paying The Price Pb
Teresa Whitfield
Temple University Press, 1994
On November 16, 1989, on the campus of El Salvador's University of Central America, six Jesuits and two women were murdered by members of the Salvadoran army, an army funded and trained by the United States. One of the murdered Jesuits was Ignacio Ellacuria, the university's Rector and a key, although controversial, figure in Salvadoran public life. From an opening account of this terrible crime, ...
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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (American ...5 reviews
Lesley Gill
Duke University Press, 2004
Gill Illuminates Global Secrets
+ very informative
+ Fantastic Study of the School of the Assassins
+ The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's Review of The School of the Americas
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El Salvador (Enchantment of the World. Second Series)1 review
Marion Morrison
Children's Press(CT), 2001
Excellent Overview
I checked this book out from the library before going to El Salvador, and I found it a very helpful overview of the culture. When I returned, I was showing my friends and family pictures from this book as much as I was showing my own pictures. I am purchasing the book to have as a keepsake from ...
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Feminism & Legacy Of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas (Ohio RIS Latin America Series)
Karen Kampwirth
Ohio University Press, 2004
In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways. Women were mobilized by the thousands to promote revolutionary agendas that had little to do with increasing gender equality. They ended up creating a uniquely Latin American version of feminism that combined revolutionary goals of economic equality and social justice with typically feminist ...
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