Download or read book El Salvador U S Interests and Policy Options written by Keith Larry Storrs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book El Salvador U S Interests and Policy Options written by Mary Jeanne Reid Martz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Situation in El Salvador and Options for United States Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Policy Options in El Salvador written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Policy Options in El Salvador written by EE.UU. Congress House Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book El Salvador written by Clare Ribando Seelke and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress has had significant interest in El Salvador, a small Central American nation that has had a large percentage of its population living in the United States since the country's civil conflict (1980-1992). During the 1980s, the U.S. government spent billions of dollars supporting the Salvadoran government's counterinsurgency efforts against the leftist Farabundo Mart� National Liberation Front (FMLN). The United States later supported a 1992 peace accord that ended the conflict and transformed the FMLN into a political party. Despite periodic tensions, the United States worked with two consecutive FMLN administrations (2009-2019), but bilateral efforts were unable to prevent significant outflows of migrants from the country. Domestic Situation On June 1, 2019, Nayib Bukele, a 37-year-old businessman and former mayor of San Salvador, took office for a five-year presidential term. Bukele won 53% of the vote in the February 2019 election, standing for the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) party. Elected on an anticorruption platform, Bukele is the first president in 30 years to be elected without the backing of the conservative National Republic Alliance (ARENA) or the FMLN parties. Bukele succeeded Salvador S�nchez Cer�n (FMLN), who presided over a period of moderate economic growth (averaging 2.3%), ongoing security challenges, and political polarization. President Bukele has promised to reduce crime and attract investment, but his lack of support in the National Assembly (GANA has 11 of 84 seats) could present challenges. Bukele has proposed infrastructure projects that could help the country take better advantage of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR); critics question how these projects will be financed. Bukele has criticized repressive governments in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Honduras. During a July 2019 visit with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, President Bukele vowed to improve relations with the United States by working bilaterally to address gangs, drugs, and immigration and seeking investment rather than U.S. assistance. U.S. Policy U.S. policy in El Salvador has focused on promoting economic prosperity, improving security, and strengthening governance under the U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America. Congress has appropriated nearly $2.6 billion for the strategy since FY2016, at least $410 million of which has been allocated to El Salvador. The Trump Administration has requested $445 million for the strategy in FY2020, including at least $45.7 million for El Salvador, and an unspecified amount allocated for the country under the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI). Future U.S. engagement in El Salvador is uncertain, however, as the Administration announced in March 2019 that it intended to end foreign assistance programs in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras due to continued unauthorized U.S.-bound migration. In June 2019, the Administration identified FY2017 and FY2018 bilateral and regional funds subject to withholding or reprogramming. It is unclear how funds appropriated for FY2019 in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 116-6) and FY2020 funds may be affected. Bilateral relations also have been tested by shifts in U.S. immigration policies, including the Trump Administration's decision to rescind the temporary protected status (TPS) designation that has shielded up to 250,000 Salvadorans from removal since 2001. A House-passed bill, H.R. 6, would allow certain TPS designees to apply for permanent resident status.

Download or read book U S Policy Options in El Salvador written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Policy Options in El Salvador written by États-Unis. House of representatives. Committee on foreign affairs. Subcommittee on inter-American affairs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Situation in El Salvador Options for U S Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book El Salvador Options for the 90s written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The El Salvador conflict is nearing its 10th anniversary without any clear indication that the end is in sight. El Salvador is the focal point of U.S. policy in Central America and has become a test case of the nation's will and ability to influence political and military events in the region. U.S. intervention in El Salvador is a product of the broader conflict in Central America, which was initiated by the "fall" of Nicaragua to the Sandinistas in 1979. The Reagan Administration's decision to draw the line in El Salvador was intended as a signal that the United States would not "lose" another country in Central America. El Salvador became the test case because, in 1980, it appeared to be the next in line for Marxist takeover as the FMLN/FDR geared up for the "final offensive" in 1981. It is arguable that without U.S. assistance, El Salvador would have fallen to the FMLN insurgents. U.S. influence and assistance have been instrumental in organizing six fair and open national elections in El Salvador since 1980, including two at the presidential level. In that sense, the United States has succeeded in implementing its policy of promoting democratic reform. But the war continues, as evidenced by the FMLN's move into San Salvador late last year, and the ESAF continues to battle both its enemy and its image, as evidenced by the murder of six priests in response to the FMLN action. The stalemate is now passing the 5-year mark. The United States has spent more than 3 billion dollars over the past 10 years to promote democracy and respect for human rights in El Salvador and to fight the FMLN. Given the amount of aid and the noble cause, what went wrong? Perhaps it is fairer to ask, "What did not go right?" Before trying to answer this question, the author reviews the history of relations between the United States and Central America.

Download or read book Authoritarian El Salvador written by Erik Ching and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could have foreseen the result, the coup led to five decades of uninterrupted military rule, the longest run in modern Latin American history. Furthermore, six weeks after coming to power, the new military regime oversaw the crackdown on a peasant rebellion in western El Salvador that is one of the worst episodes of state-sponsored repression in modern Latin American history. Democracy would not return to El Salvador until the 1990s, and only then after a brutal twelve-year civil war. In Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in 1931. Based on his comprehensive survey of the extant documentary record in El Salvador’s national archive, Ching argues that El Salvador was typified by a longstanding tradition of authoritarianism dating back to the early- to mid-nineteenth century. The basic structures of that system were based on patron-client relationships that wove local, regional, and national political actors into complex webs of rival patronage networks. Decidedly nondemocratic in practice, the system nevertheless exhibited highly paradoxical traits: it remained steadfastly loyal to elections as the mechanism by which political aspirants acquired office, and it employed a political discourse laden with appeals to liberty and free suffrage. That blending of nondemocratic authoritarianism with populist reformism and rhetoric set the precedent for military rule for the next fifty years.

Download or read book Western Interests and U S Policy Options in the Caribbean Basin written by James R. Greene and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Weakness and Deceit written by Raymond Bonner and published by Crown. This book was released on 1984 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States and El Salvador written by Merline A. Lovelace and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at the relationship between the United States and El Salvador from two perspectives: first, it examines the internal social, political and economic dynamics which brought El Salvador to its present crisis; then it looks at how U.S. policy has evolved over the years to the point where El Salvador has become one of the main recipients of U.S. interest and aid. The paper then reviews in some detail current U.S. policy toward El Salvador, assessing how well it meets both Salvadoran and U.S. goals and objectives. Finally, the author offers some thoughts on how U.S. policy should be modified to serve longer term goals for both El Salvador and the Central American region.

Download or read book The Salvador Option written by Russell Crandall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough and fair-minded interpretation of the role of the United States in El Salvador's civil war.

Download or read book Central America written by Jorge I. Domínguez and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of booklets on world issues, this document summarizes some of the salient aspects of Central America with special attention given to Nicaragua and El Salvador. The booklet identifies the interests, policies, and choices of the major actors in the drama that engulfs the region and, increasingly, much of the world. Chapter one briefly outlines the historical background of Central America characterized as a friction point where European nations and the United States have clashed with each other and with local populations over control of the region and its international transportation routes. Chapter two focuses on Nicaragua and El Salvador as centers of controversy. Recent history, economic involvements, and political and social development are explored. Chapter three presents four possible scenarios for Central America in the years between 1985-1990: (1) Nicaragua isolated; (2) Central America divided; (3) return to the center; and (4) regional war. Three economic strategies for the 1980's are explored: (1) the new export orientation; (2) the continuance of the strategy of the 1970s; and (3) the reduction of dependence. Chapter four investigates Central America's relationship with the rest of the world. Chapter five discusses U.S. policies toward Central America including U.S. interests and U.S. policy options. The "Talking It Over" section offers questions for students and discussion groups. (RSL)

Download or read book American Value written by David Pedersen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically. Historically reliant on primary exports like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income now coming from a massive emigrant workforce that earns money in the US and sends it home. In this work, Pedersen examines this new way of life as it extends across two places: Intipucā, a Salvadoran town infamous for its remittance wealth, and the Washington, DC metro area.