La política partidista y el legado de la insurgencia en El Salvador

Amsterdam : CEDLA

1er febrero 2019 15h30-17h00

Party politics and the legacies of insurgency in El Salvador

Ralph Sprenkels, Centre for Conflict Studies | Utrecht University

Discussant: Abbey Steele, Universiteit van Amsterdam

In 2009 El Salvador’s Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became Latin America’s first non-triumphant guerrilla movement able to take power by the ballot. Once in government, how did the FMLN accommodate its revolutionary aspirations and insurgent legacies? Based on Sprenkels’s recent book “After Insurgency”, this talk features an “ethnographic tour” of FMLN internal party politics and of its performance in government. The FMLN’s reliance on former insurgent networks to build and expand the political party allowed it to develop an electorally competitive political machine, but also partially undermined the party’s capacity to enforce political change in El Salvador.

After Insurgency. Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018)

La revolución revisitada. Nuevas perspectivas sobre la guerra y la insurrección en El Salvador (UCA editores, 2017)

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