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Speaking of El Salvador
During the 20th century, El Salvador suffered from one of the longest periods of military rule and political domination in the Americas, beginning with the 1931 coup against the democratically-elected Arturo Aurajo, and culminating in a bloody civil war that lasted from 1979 to 1992. In his book, In Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940, Furman history professor Erik Ching examines this history of authoritarian governance in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Dr. Ching was recently interviewed by the New Books Network for a podcast that was posted on the Latin American Studies website.