To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932

by Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago

To Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history. In January 1932 thousands of indigenous and ladino (non-Indian) rural laborers, provoked by electoral fraud and the repression of strikes, rose up and took control of several municipalities in central and western El Salvador. Within days the military and civilian militias retook the towns and executed thousands of people, most of whom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342286
• ISBN13: 9780822342281
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"