Long Journey to Justice
El Salvador, the United States, and Struggles against Empire
- 305 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
As bloody wars raged in Central America during the last third of the twentieth century, hundreds of North American groups "adopted" villages in war-torn Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Unlike government-based cold warâera Sister City programs, these pairings were formed by ordinary people, often inspired by individuals displaced by US-supported counterinsurgency operations.Drawing on two decades of work with former refugees from El Salvador as well as unprecedented access to private archives and oral histories, Molly Todd's compelling history provides the first in-depth look at "grassroots sistering." This model of citizen diplomacy emerged in the mid-1980s out of relationships between a few repopulated villages in Chalatenango, El Salvador, and US cities.Todd shows how the leadership of Salvadorans and left-leaning activists in the US concerned with the expansion of empire as well as the evolution of human rightsârelated discourses and practices created a complex dynamic of cross-border activism that continues today.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: The Past in the Present
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Grassroots Sistering and Politics
- 1. Radical Roots
- 2. Re-educating Empire
- 3. New Horizons
- 4. This Promised Land
- Conclusion: Unmasking Empire
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index