Arena, fmln y los sucesos del 5 de julio del 2006 en El Salvador: violencia e imaginarios políticos

• Main Author: Ralph Sprenkels
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos 2014-12-01
• Series: Trace
• Subjects: Belloso; conspiracy; fmln; Arena; activists.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/trace/1799

Serious riots occurred in El Salvador on July 5, 2006. The country’s worst postwar political violence until then resulted in two dead policemen, several wounded people and dozens of arrests. After these events, a different battle should be fought: to explain what happened and to find the culprits. July 5th marked a climax in the political polarization between right-wing Arena party (at the time in government) and the leftist fmln, the main opposition party then. Through a longitudinal reconstruction, this article analyzes the facts –as well as interpretations and manipulations to which they were subjected– that can teach us about the political dynamics of postwar in El Salvador. Particularly striking is the validity of political imaginaries associated with the use of conspiratorial methods and with clear lineage to the Salvadoran armed conflict and the Cold War.