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What is the history of San Salvador?
Why has there been so much political unrest in this city?
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Beginning about 1680, the island was used as a stronghold by pirate John Watling, after whom it was named at that time. In the 18th and 19th century much of San Salvador was covered by British cotton plantations run by imported African slaves. When the British Crown abolished slavery in 1834, the island shifted to a sharecropping system that failed miserably, leaving the population of the island at a bare subsistence level by the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1926, at the request of of its inhabitants, the name of the island was changed from Watling's Island to San Salvador by the Bahamian government. Much of the current infrastructure was built by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, when they constructed what is now the Gerace Research Institute to use as a tracking station.
In its political transition from war to peace, El Salvador is swinging between authoritarianism and democracy. Labor problems and demands by workers and employees in some of the piece work plants, state institutions and associations of ex combatants are being answered by public security forces. Workers are still using own combative methods forged in the days of mass demonstrations, when legal channels were so brutally repressed, and the National Civil Police (PNC) has turned too quickly to repression. At the bottom of all these conflicts is the fact that the economy is worsening for the majority of Salvadorans.
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Beginning about 1680, the island was used as a stronghold by pirate John Watling, after whom it was named at that time. In the 18th and 19th century much of San Salvador was covered by British cotton plantations run by imported African slaves. When the British Crown abolished slavery in 1834, the island shifted to a sharecropping system that failed miserably, leaving the population of the island at a bare subsistence level by the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1926, at the request of of its inhabitants, the name of the island was changed from Watling's Island to San Salvador by the Bahamian government. Much of the current infrastructure was built by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, when they constructed what is now the Gerace Research Institute to use as a tracking station.
In its political transition from war to peace, El Salvador is swinging between authoritarianism and democracy. Labor problems and demands by workers and employees in some of the piece work plants, state institutions and associations of ex combatants are being answered by public security forces. Workers are still using own combative methods forged in the days of mass demonstrations, when legal channels were so brutally repressed, and the National Civil Police (PNC) has turned too quickly to repression. At the bottom of all these conflicts is the fact that the economy is worsening for the majority of Salvadorans.
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