de Soto & del Castillo: Implementation of Comphrensive Peace Accords

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?