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El Salvador portraits in a revolution
Title
El Salvador [electronic resource] : portraits in a revolution / produced and directed by Laura Jackson.
Published
New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1994.
Physical Description
1 online resource (57 min.)
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Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 2, 2015).
In English.
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Summary
This film documents the grassroots nature of revolutionary democracy and the courage of the ordinary people of El Salvador. In the 1980's, thousands of Salvadorans were forced to flee their homeland to refugee camps in Honduras. After nine years in the camps, they made a decision unprecedented in refugee history. Against their government's wishes, they returned home as communities while the war was still raging. Against the backdrop of the 12-year civil war, we meet individual refugees and hear their stories of the Repatriation Movement they created. We learn about Father Segundo Montes, one of the Jesuits murdered by the military, who inspired the refugees to rebuild their country. Today, many questions remain about demilitarization, land reform and reconstruction of a more democratic society. This film gives the viewer some of the information necessary to begin to address these questions.
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Human rights studies online (video)
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 23, 2015
Series
Human rights studies online (video)
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