Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
by
Erik Ching
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could...