El Salvador 1981: An Overview Peasants in El Salvador did not have a good life. They were violently oppressed by their government, and their lives were practically dictated to them. They lived in a so called democracy but they couldn't vote for whom they wanted, and they couldn't openly oppose their government without the most severe of all punishments. You would be shot dead where you stood if a national guard found you passing out political …showed first 75 words of 1233 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1233 total…another El Mozote: (a) avoid mass media, (b) seek out independent forms of media, and (c) speak out against injustices caused by the government. Danner, Mark. The Massacre at El Mozote. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Forché, Carolyn, and Cynthia Arnson. El Salvador. Eds. Harry Mattison, Susan Meiselas, and Fae Ruben Stein. New York: Writers and Readers, 1983. Gettleman, Marvin E., et al, eds. El Salvador: Central America in the New Cold War. New York: Grove Press, 1981.