Happy Independence Day El Salvador

¨Today, we celebrate, our Independence Day¨
- ID4

Happy Independence Day El Salvador (September 15)
Below is a little history I found on the internet and wanted share with sitting in your nice 1st world homes, sippin’ on fresh brewed coffee probably grown here, and watching you’re big screen TV in your air conditioned homes with hot running water, big ass refrigrator stocked with low carb foods and Pam, speaking your English language with ease…whoa, sorry, lamenting there.
Anyhow, my own two cents (or 1/6th of a Colon, I should say) worth is found within the text, marked by * *. Enjoy.

On September 15, 1821, El Salvador and the other Central American provinces declared their independence from Spain **and why might I ask?**. In 1823, the United Provinces of Central America was formed by the five Central American states under General Manuel José Arce. When this federation was dissolved in 1838 **to my understanding, it was a failure, but who am I to argue?**, El Salvador became an independent republic. El Salvador's early history as an independent state was marked by frequent revolutions **Spain ran a tight ship at the very least**.
From 1872 to 1898 El Salvador was a prime mover in attempts to reestablish an isthmian federation. The governments of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua formed the Greater Republic of Central America via the Pact of Amapala in 1895. Although Guatemala and Costa Rica considered joining the Greater Republic (which was rechristened the United States of Central America when its constitution went into effect in 1898), neither country joined **and look at them now, the two power houses of Central America, good job Monique’s family so far you’ve past the tests required to enter our bloodline**. This union, which had planned to establish its capital city at Amapala on the Golfo de Fonseca, did not survive a seizure of power in El Salvador in 1898 **For a country called “The Savior” this country is marked by constant strife**.
The huge profits that coffee yielded as a monoculture export served as an impetus for the process whereby land became concentrated in the hands of an oligarchy of several hundred families. A succession of presidents from the ranks of the Salvadoran oligarchy **um, more like military “presidents”**, nominally both conservative and liberal **all conservative**, throughout the last half of the nineteenth century generally agreed on the promotion of coffee as the predominant cash crop, on the development of infrastructure (railroads and port facilities) primarily in support of the coffee trade, on the elimination of communal landholdings to facilitate further coffee production, on the passage of anti-vagrancy laws to ensure that displaced campesinos and other rural residents provided sufficient labor for the coffee fincas (plantations), and on the suppression of rural discontent **yeah, they were called Death Squads**.
The coffee industry grew inexorably in El Salvador. As a result the elite provided the bulk of the government's financial support through import duties on goods imported with the foreign currencies that coffee sales earned. This support, coupled with the humbler and more mundane mechanisms of corruption, ensured the coffee growers of overwhelming influence within the government and the military which they used to create the Guardia Nacional (GN) in 1912. The duties of the GN differed from those of the Policia Nacional (PN), mainly in that GN personnel were specifically responsible for providing security on the coffee fincas and effectively suppresing rural dissent.
A bloodless coup led by General Tomás Regalado took El Salvador into the twentieth century. Regalado's peaceful transfer of power in 1903 to his handpicked successor, Pedro José Escalón, ushered in a period of comparative stability that extended until the depression-provoked upheaval of 1931-32.
In 1930 General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the country's Minister of Defense, took power in a coup d'état. Soon after, Martínez, now President, suppressed a 1932 revolt consisting of farmers and Indians in the western part of the country. The revolt was conducted by the newly formed Communist Party and its leader Agustín Farabundo Martí. The military conflict left more than 20,000 people dead in retaliatory massacres, which came to be known as "La Matanza;" this marked the beginning of a series of de facto military dictatorships that would rule El Salvador until 1979, when General Humberto Romero of the Party of National Conciliation (PCN) would be overthrown in a reformist coup.
Under the authoritarian rule of Maj. Óscar Osorio (1950—56) and Lt. Col. José María Lemus (1956—60) considerable economic progress was made. Lemus was overthrown by a coup, and after a confused period a junta composed of leaders of the National Conciliation party came to power in June, 1961. The junta's candidate, Lt. Col. Julio Adalberto Rivera, was elected president in 1962. He was succeeded in 1967 by Col. Fidel Sánchez Hernández. Relations with Honduras deteriorated in the late 1960s. There was a border clash in 1967, and a four-day war broke out in July, 1969. The Salvadoran forces that had invaded Honduras were withdrawn, but not until 1992 **This was the year the Olympics were in Barcelona…small world** was an agreement settling the border controversy with Honduras signed.
Following increasing clashes between the FMLN **communists and the party that I will loose my brother to when he arrives**, El Salvadoran Armed Forces (ESAF) and rightist vigilantes known as death squads, a civil war broke out that would last 12 years (1980-1992) and claim the lives of approximately 75,000 people. A ceasefire was established in 1992 when the rebels of the FMLN and the government of President Alfredo Cristiani of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), signed "Peace accords" on January 16, 1992 that assured political and military reforms; death squad activity was virtually eliminated. However, the accords did not expound on social reforms.
El Salvador is known for the many earthquakes that occur within its borders. It is known popularly as the “Valley of the Hammocks” since colonial times. On January 13, 2001 an earthquake that measured 7.6 on the Richter scale caused a landslide that killed more than 800 people. On February 13, 2001 a second earthquake killed 255 people.
The population density is high. The highest concentration of people is found in the capital, San Salvador.