El Salvador

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El Salvador 's Dark Ages

The Republic of El Salvador gained its independence in 1821 from Spain It was originally inhabited by the Pipils , a race considered as the descendants of Aztecs and Toltecs of Mexico . According to C .I .A , it is the smallest country in Central America and the only one without a coastline on the Caribbean Sea (World Factbook . Little is known of this republic-country , except maybe for the fact that Salvadorans have been known to be zealously nationalistic

in nature . Like any other nation striving to develop its own identity , El Salvador has had its own share of turmoils and political and social upheavals

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With the country 's economy primarily focusing on enormous cultivation of coffee in the second half of the 1800 's , the emergence of an elite landed class was imminent . In a study made by Foreign Affairs , these elite class of families of farm owners , later to be known as Los Catorce , came to control about 60 percent of the entire country 's farmlands , the country 's banking system , and almost all of the major industries (LeoGrande and Robbins . Due to this situation , the strength of El Salvador 's economy was very much dependent on the world market price of coffee , which has consistently been unstable , and the businesses of the few elites . Among themselves , they constitute half of the entire country 's annual national income (LeoGrande and Robbins 1980

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