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de Soto & del Castillo: Implementation of Comphrensive Peace Accords [d70e8e40]

Tags: el salvador, un and global governance lecture 5

  • UN proclaims success in el salvador, but it's highly likely this wasn't possible

  • problems

    • national civil police in el salvador
    • transfer of land to former combatants
  • UN peace accords started from 1990 to 1991, a "negotiated revolution"
  • appearance of armed bands following the peace accords

  • ONUSAL was asked to be extended by the salvadoreans

    • extremely intrusive, basically UN "omnipresence"
  • el salvador was largely broken due to income inequality, which then had the landed class nurture a powerful armed forces to protect themselves
  • constant external financing problems, especially in light of the problems caused by the collapse in coffee prices, lead to need for more external financing
  • international negotiating effor was developed and maintained by the sec gen
  • makes the case that el salvador's gains are not irreversible, and the various assinations and killings presents a difficult problem to solve
  • "race towards elections" - lulls the international community into thinking that the problem is finished
  • questions of "exit scenario", what consitutes a proper exit scenario?