El Salvador: Elecciones Y Movimientos Sociales

Almeida, Paul

doi:10.4067/s0718-090x2010000200008

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“…For a large part of the FMLN activists, more radical ideological rhetoric reminiscent of the war remained relevant to some degree, while at the same time the activists’ interactions with the party became increasingly impregnated by clientelism. The combination allowed the FMLN consistently to field a large force for electoral campaigning and to defend the vote on election day (Almeida 2010a: 320).…”

Section: Moderation Governance and The Legacies Of Warmentioning

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Ambivalent Moderation: The FMLN’s Ideological Accommodation to Post-War Politics in El Salvador

Sprenkels¹

2018

Gov. & oppos.

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El Salvador’s FMLN is an oft-cited example of a rebel movement which successfully embraced electoral democracy. This article examines the ideological dimensions of this transformation. In the course of the Salvadoran peace process, the FMLN substantially overhauled its ideological orientation and associated modes of engagement with the state and the broader political system. Moderation unfolded in four subsequent stages: the resignification of revolution as a process of reform, the FMLN’s rebel-to-party adaptation, the electoral consolidation of the FMLN, and the FMLN as the party in government. Over the years, while electoral politics invited public moderation, Leninist dogma continued to dominate internal party politics. This article finds that the post-war FMLN has employed seemingly contradictory ideological repertoires in parallel. This ambivalence, strongly rooted in the war, has facilitated the FMLN’s electoral ascendency. It has also strained democratic consolidation in El Salvador.

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Section: Moderation Governance and The Legacies Of Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambivalent Moderation: The FMLN’s Ideological Accommodation to Post-War Politics in El Salvador

Sprenkels¹

2018

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“…The United States already enjoyed a good relation with the government of El Salvador, as well as with the governing party, from which the next president was very likely to emerge (Almeida, 2010). This continuity in the special relation with the United States made El Salvador a promising location for the stability of the new base.…”

Section: The Colamapa Base In El Salvadormentioning

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“…The FMLN emerged as a regular political party after the negotiations, with relative success in municipal elections (Manning 2008, 119), reaching a representation in congress that averages close to 50%, and achieving the presidency until 2009, when Mauricio Funes became the first FMLN president of El Salvador (Almeida, 2010). With these electoral victories, the FMLN has become "one of the most successful armed opposition groups turned political party in the world" (Allison and Alvarez, 2012, 89).…”

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US Military Bases, Quasi-bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America

Bitar¹,

Gardner²

2016

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This dissertation explores the obstacles for US formal military bases in Latin America. While in the past, the United States managed to establish bases in several countries in the region, despite Washingtons efforts every negotiation to open new bases has failed since 2000, and older bases have been terminated, as in the case of Ecuador. Using evidence from Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, and other countries in the region, the dissertation finds that shifts in government preferences do not explain this failure. Instead, domestic challenges to host governments in Latin America systematically appear as blocking mechanisms that impede the establishment of foreign military bases, even when leaders support them.The dissertation builds on the work of Alexander Cooley and others and develops a model of base politics to explain how domestic political calculations affect foreign basing negotiations. Furthermore, the dissertation finds that when formal bases have not succeeded, interested governments have worked around domestic constrains to establish alternative and informal arrangements that allow US military presence and operations in their countries. These alternative arrangements, or quasi-bases, have advanced US security interests in Latin America even in the absence of formal base leases, while at the same time their secrecy and informality protects Latin American leaders from domestic contestation. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation would not have been possible without the guidance of my chair, Patrick Jackson, and the thorough comments of Arlene Tickner and Eric Hershberg, members of my committee. Through over a year of revising the final manuscript it gained a lot both in content and in clarity, thanks to the several rounds of revisions where the three of them contributed from their different fields of expertise. Other people at the American University provided guidance, suggestions, source material, and more importantly, constant support. Ryan Briggs and Tom Long have been patient readers of my work and provided valuable criticism during every stage of this process. But more than anything, their friendship and moral support has been the greatest gift I received during my time at American University. Dean Louis Goodman, Sharon Weiner, Philip Brenner, and my cohort at the SIS PhD program have also been constant sources of wisdom and support and I cannot thank them enough. Back in Colombia, the faculty at the School of Government of the Universidad de los Andes blessed me with their confidence and always provided a warm space for me to work when I visited Bogota. Carlos Caballero Argaez, Director of the School, and Carlos Angulo, then President of the University, both encouraged me and provided everything I could need to start, and complete, my PhD successfully. This dissertation greatly benefited from comments I received from Alexander Cooley, David Vine, the faculty at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, along with reviewers and commentators of pieces presented at various academic conferences. Maria Berger also co...

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“…En 2009 accedió al poder ejecutivo mediante las urnas el partido de izquierda Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), previamente una organización guerrillera de corte marxista leninista. Se trató éste de un episodio histórico sin precedentes en El Salvador y así lo reconocieron tanto la prensa internacional como los trabajos académicos al respecto (véase, por ejemplo, Colburn 2009;Almeida 2010). En un país cuya historia ha sido una sucesión de gobiernos militares y autoritarios, vinculados con las élites económicas, desde el segundo cuarto del siglo XX, la victoria de un partido como el FMLN se interpretó como un punto de inflexión, además de venir a confirmar la consolidación de la transición a la democracia iniciada con la firma de los acuerdos de paz en 1992.…”

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The reissue of the conflict

Montoya

2018

eca

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Este artículo argumenta que, en El Salvador de la posguerra, amplios sectores de la población han incorporado distintas formas de violencia en sus imaginarios de la democracia, así como en su subjetividad y prácticas políticas. A partir de la investigación etnográfica realizada en el contexto de las elecciones presidenciales de 2009 y 2014 en el departamento de La Paz, el artículo demuestra que las disputas electorales de la posguerra entre los principales partidos políticos de El Salvador constituyen en cierto modo una reedición de conflictos aún no resueltos que tienen su origen en la guerra de la década de los ochenta. Con la victoria del FMLN en 2009 y el acceso de este partido al gobierno, el enfrentamiento entre los partidos continuó, pero concentrándose en el orden simbólico y discursivo y requiriendo una actualización acorde a las nuevas circunstancias. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 73, No. 752, 2018: 45-63.

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El Salvador: Elecciones Y Movimientos Sociales

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Ambivalent Moderation: The FMLN’s Ideological Accommodation to Post-War Politics in El Salvador

Ambivalent Moderation: The FMLN’s Ideological Accommodation to Post-War Politics in El Salvador

US Military Bases, Quasi-bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America

The reissue of the conflict

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