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Promised Land: Peasant Rebellion in Chalatenango El Salvador

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Jenny Pearce crossed the front line in El Salvador to collect oral histories from the people living under bombardment in Chalatenango, an area controlled by the FMLN guerillas. Promised Land traces how, in spite of 50 years of systematic and brutal repression, the peasants started to organize themselves. In the face of growing landlessness and misery, they formed a union in the 1970s to fight for less expensive credit, lower rents, and better wages at the plantations. Along with other labor organizations, they created some of the best organized and most combative popular movements in Latin The usa.

When the deepening political crisis led to civil war this provided the foundation for the guerilla army and the civilian administration of the area controlled by it. Here the peasants were ready to elect councils, to run health and education programs and to organize production–for the first time to realize the possibility of their lives. Under US tutelage, the Salvadorean army has responded with bombings, and terrifying invasions. Promised Land vividly portrays these events with photographs and the words of people in an instant involved. It provides the background to understanding current events and where solutions may lie for the people of El Salvador.

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