“They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage”: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929–1931

Entre La Guerra De Castas Y La Ladinización. La Imagen Del Indígena en La Centroamérica Liberal, 1870-1944

“…Por otro lado, tal proyecto no pasaba de ser una discusión relacionada con el rescate de lo indígena, ya que los nativos reales (alrededor del 20% de la población salvadoreña en 1930) sufrieron durante toda la década de 1920 una verdadera proletarización, además del desplazamiento de sus tierras y la necesidad de trabajar en otros lugares para poder sufragar sus necesidades (Gould y Lauria, 2004).…”

The Settlement experience of Salvadoran refugees

“…It was not until 1931 that the first real democratically elected president took office in El Salvador. The radicalization of the growing urban middle class began to mobilize during the 1920s; skilled workers, peasants and students reacted strongly to the United States' intervention (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004). Thousands of Salvadorans, both from the middle and peasant classes vehemently opposed U.S. actions in neighbouring Nicaragua and protested by raising funds for Augusto Cesar Sadino and organizing rallies (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004).…”

“…The radicalization of the growing urban middle class began to mobilize during the 1920s; skilled workers, peasants and students reacted strongly to the United States' intervention (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004). Thousands of Salvadorans, both from the middle and peasant classes vehemently opposed U.S. actions in neighbouring Nicaragua and protested by raising funds for Augusto Cesar Sadino and organizing rallies (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004). Public discourse critiquing the unequal distribution of wealth continued to grow, and newspapers frequently published editorials critiquing the economic structures in the country (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004).…”

“…Thousands of Salvadorans, both from the middle and peasant classes vehemently opposed U.S. actions in neighbouring Nicaragua and protested by raising funds for Augusto Cesar Sadino and organizing rallies (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004). Public discourse critiquing the unequal distribution of wealth continued to grow, and newspapers frequently published editorials critiquing the economic structures in the country (Gould and Lauria-Santiago, 2004). President Romero Bosque broke the authoritarian cycle, setting forth the Romero reforms which enabled a genuinely democratic election (Ching, 2014).…”