
El Salvador’s Backslide
With its loss of the presidency in El Salvador’s recent elections, the gains of the revolutionary project launched by the FMLN in 1980 are in serious jeopardy.
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Hilary Goodfriend is a postdoctoral researcher with the Geography Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. She is a member of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) editorial committee, an editor at the journal Latin American Perspectives, and a contributing editor at Jacobin magazine.
With its loss of the presidency in El Salvador’s recent elections, the gains of the revolutionary project launched by the FMLN in 1980 are in serious jeopardy.
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