The protection racket state: elite politics, military extortion, and civil war in El Salvador

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Self-Defense, Class Oppression, and Extortion: Alternative Views of State Violence 2. Antecendents: the Matanza and the Establishment of Military Rule 3. The Failure of Institutional Military Rule 4. Experiments in State Terrorism: Repression and Polarization under Carlos Romero 5. The Reformist Coup and the First Revolutionary Governing Junta 6. Descent into Mass Murder 7. Breaking the Protection Racket: From War to Peace Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes References Index