Description
During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency via an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and ugly bodily mutilations. At the same time as human rights violations drew international attention, repression and war displaced more than 1 / 4 of El Salvador’s population, both within the country and beyond its borders. Beyond Displacement examines how the peasant campesinos of war-torn northern El Salvador responded to violence by taking to the hills. Molly Todd demonstrates that their flight was once now not hasty and chaotic, however was once a deliberate strategy that grew out of an extended history of collective organization, mobilization, and self-defense.