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Enrique Alvarez Cordova: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary and Gentleman

Enrique Alvarez Cordova: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary and Gentleman

Lamperti, John W.

Paperback

Political BiographiesCentral American HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0786424737
ISBN13: 9780786424733
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Apr 4 2006
Pages: 295
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Enrique Alvarez Cordova was the son of one of El Salvador's ruling families. Intelligent, charismatic and above all wealthy, he had nothing to gain--and a great deal to lose--by courting revolution. Yet this young man with all the advantages did just that. Impressed by the poverty and miserable existence of the rural population, Alvarez set about making a change. He spent most of his adult life working for reform within the constraints of the existing system, serving as minister of agriculture under three governments. He turned his own ranch, El Jobo, into a successful workers' cooperative to convince the ruling class that agrarian reform was possible and even profitable. In the end, however, he found that fundamental change was simply beyond the reach of such efforts. Embracing armed struggle as a last resort, he ultimately became one of the revolution's first casualties.

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