This Promised Land, El Sal

by Steve Cagan

Book Overview

Ten years ago thousands of men, women, and children from El Salvador fled to Honduras to escape government repression and violence. They gathered together into a refugee camp, Colomoncagua. What began as a disorganized collection of individuals would develop into a near-utopian community of 8,400 people. The refugees arrived as illiterate and frightened peasants with little experience with democratic institutions; within a few years they transformed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081351679X
• ISBN13: 9780813516790
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.2"