Culture as Weapon by Nato Thompson

Culture as Weapon by Nato Thompson

Author:Nato Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Art, Art & Politics, Business & Economics, Advertising & Promotion
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2017-01-17T06:00:00+00:00


In El Salvador, as in Vietnam, our help has been welcome but our advice spurned, and for very good reason. That advice—to reform radically—threatens to alter fundamentally the position and prerogatives of those in power. The United States, with its “revolutionary” means of combatting insurgency, is threatening the very things its ally is fighting to defend. Those reforms that we have deemed absolutely essential—respect for human rights, a judicial system that applies to all members of Salvadoran society, radical land redistribution—are measures no government in El Salvador has been able to achieve because they require fundamental changes in the country’s authoritarian culture, economic structure and political practices.75



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