Organization and Education among Salvadoran Political Prisoners
John L. Hammond
Abstract
During the twelve-year war between the Salvadoran government and
the FMLN, thousands of activists were imprisoned. They waged an
active, politicized struggle against prison authorities. They also
educated themselves mutually, applying the principles of popular
education widespread in the Salvadoran popular movement, which
emphasized close integration between pedagogy and politics both in
the content of education and in the political process. Human rights
movements working to protect Salvadoran prisoners whose rights were
being violated used a rhetoric which presented prisoners as innocent
victims, but the testimonies of the prisoners reveal that they were
active protagonists of political struggle even in prison.
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