Indigenous Peoples and social violence after the Peace Accords in El Salvador

Abstract

The indigenous population in El Salvador has gone through different forms of violence, discrimination, subjugation and imposition since Colonial times as an economic system that was adverse to their worldview. This scenario has generated adverse consequences to land ownership, exclusion and social marginalization towards the indigenous peoples; this situation has influenced the cosmovision of their new generations; this situation can be evidenced in their denial to wear their clothing and speak their tongue. In this sense, the goal of this article is that of studying the phenomenon of social violence towards the indigenous peoples after the Peace Accords; it focuses on the actions taken by State and non-governmental institutions in the recognition of the human rights of said population.

Entorno, june 2018, issue 65: 15-24