The Twenty-first-Century Left in El Salvador and Nicaragua: Understanding Apparent Contradictions and Criticisms
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 40, Heft 3
ISSN: 1552-678X
For the first time, two former guerrilla organizations simultaneously hold power in Central America: the Salvadoran Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and the Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front. Both parties' preference for leftist policies is constrained by the lack of development of the productive forces in both countries and the imperatives of the neoliberal model under which they are forced to operate, often yielding behaviors that are ostensibly contradictory to their revolutionary origins. The apparent contradictions are best understood as the result of strategic party choices, diverging conceptions about the appropriate policies for the construction of socialism, and the transformation of the leftist agenda in the twenty-first century. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]
