El Salvador is a capitalist state in Central America, bordering Guatemala.
Historic Libertarian Socialism
Libertarian socialist ideas are first known to have entered El Salvador from French anarchist Anselme Bellegarrigue, who fled persecution from French authorities into El Salvador in the 1860s. The first known Salvadoran libertarian socialist was lawyer Enrique Cordova, who published anarchist writing as early as 1904.
As early as 1908, anarcho-syndicalist tendencies among Salvadoran workers developed, with newspapers experessing anarcho-syndicalist perspectives developing. Anarcho-syndicalists helped organised many of the first trade unions in the country. However, the movement largely dissipated as Marxist-Leninist influence over the socialist movement grew and military repression killed many anarchists or forced them into hiding.
In the 1970s, some anarchists fought with other socialist guerillas against the government in the Salvadoran Civil War, but they did not play a major role. Since the end of the civil war and development of liberal democracy in El Salvador, a growing libertarian socialist movement has emerged since the 2000s, with the rise of several small groups and even a small newspaper.[1]