El Salvador's 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí
para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla …

Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America,
Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished …

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 …

This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence. In
El Salvador, the end of war has brought about a violent peace, one in which various forms of …

Latin America experienced recurring episodes of populism, and of military reaction against
populists, during the twentieth century, frequently ending in coups d'état. In the twenty-first …

Why do governance reforms in developing democracies so often fail, and when might they
succeed? When Democracies Deliver offers a dynamic framework for assessing the …

Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power
relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a" crisis of …

Latin America's commitment to extractive development unifies governments of all political
stripes. Recent scholarship describes this common will to extract as a continental extractive …

Following the ends to the civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, the
revolutionary coalitions that had led the fight against authoritarian regimes began to fracture …

After a decade of civil war and four consecutive conservative administrations, El Salvador's
leftist FMLN won its first presidential election in 2009. How has public policy changed under …