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**El Salvador** is a capitalist [state](List_of_States "wikilink") in
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Central America, bordering [Guatemala](Guatemala "wikilink").
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## Historic Libertarian Socialism
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Libertarian socialist ideas are first known to have entered El Salvador
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from French anarchist [Anselme
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Bellegarrigue](Anselme_Bellegarrigue "wikilink"), who fled persecution
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from French authorities into El Salvador in the 1860s. The first known
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Salvadoran libertarian socialist was lawyer [Enrique
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Cordova](Enrique_Cordova "wikilink"), who published anarchist writing as
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early as 1904.
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As early as 1908, [anarcho-syndicalist](Anarcho-Syndicalism "wikilink")
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tendencies among Salvadoran workers developed, with newspapers
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experessing anarcho-syndicalist perspectives developing.
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Anarcho-syndicalists helped organised many of the first trade unions in
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the country. However, the movement largely dissipated as
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[Marxist-Leninist](Marxist-Leninism "wikilink") influence over the
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socialist movement grew and military repression killed many anarchists
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or forced them into hiding.
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In the 1970s, some anarchists fought with other socialist guerillas
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against the government in the Salvadoran Civil War, but they did not
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play a major role. Since the end of the civil war and development of
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liberal democracy in El Salvador, a growing libertarian socialist
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movement has emerged since the 2000s, with the rise of several small
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groups and even a small newspaper.\[1\]
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<references />
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_El_Salvador> |