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

by William Stanley

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566393922
• ISBN13: 9781566393928
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Military Extortion

This volume, which has been reviewed quite widely, is an excellent contribution to understanding the nature of the conflict in ES and the kind of social trade offs elites made to stay in power. A really useful addition to military in LA studies, revolution studies and of course required for those engaged in the question for ES development