From the perfect entrapment to the transformation of El Salvador in the first half of the 21st century

Abstract

An increasingly generalized feeling of pessimism, uncertainty and impotence has taken hold of Salvadorans in recent years. Some of the factors that explain are: the deterioration of the social situation and the absence of a horizon of certainty and progress; The maximum levels of crime and diverse impunity; and the citizen's knowledge of mediocrity, corruption and the lack of democratic spirit and the modernization of a good part of the leadership of the irreformable partidocracia. Today's situation is the product of the accumulated economic and social effects of the war (1980-1991) and the installation of the patrimonialism / neoliberal model in the post-war political-institutional and economic-social sphere (1991-2009). This is characterized by a decreasing economic growth and a limited social integration that is inserted in the country to globalization, vice versa, exporting many people, importing many goods and services, and exporting very few. An economy increasingly incapacitating to produce, redistribute wealth and grow and a political system, unable to carry out reforms to deepen and consolidate democracy and develop institutionalist.