Freedom of Expression in El Salvador: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy

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Both academics and diplomats incessantly cite postwar El Salvador for instance of successful conflict resolution and democratization. Salvadoran human rights advocates, then again, have had to continually and publicly express their toughen of key provisions in the 1992 peace accords. This freedom of expression contributed to the punishment of those answerable for the murder of opposition leader Francisco Velis and medical student Adriano Vilanova. Human rights advocates have been less successful in other areas, then again, including their opposition to amnesty laws for wartime human rights violators and their work against vigilante death squads. This study covers the 1992 peace accords, which come with the removal of human rights abusers from the military, the creation of a truth commission and the demilitarization of public security. It also discusses the troubling indications that the government is once again reducing the space to be had for freedom of expression, including the undermining of the Workplace of the Human Rights Counsel, the hostile attitude of President Francisco Flores, evidence of internal espionage and a changing international context. Later chapters focal point on police reform. The book concludes by presenting some suggestions for increasing freedom of expression in transitional societies such as El Salvador. There is much evidence that shows human rights are likely to be a better safe right when citizens and civil society institutions routinely exercise their right to freedom of expression.

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