{"id":3509,"date":"2015-02-13T21:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/13\/speaking-of-el-salvador\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:21:09","slug":"speaking-of-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/speaking-of-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ching-book.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16461 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ching-book.jpg\" alt=\"ching-book\" width=\"165\" height=\"248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 165px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 165\/248;\" \/><\/a>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. \u00a0In his book<em>, In Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940<\/em>, 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 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinlatinamericanstudies.com\/\">Latin American Studies<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}