Castles of ARENA Hegemony and right-wing project in the post-war period of El Salvador

Abstract

Taking as theoretic base the concept of hegemony, this article tries to understand the  consolidation of the neo-conservative politic project of the ARENA party, which has managed to rebuild the political representation of corporative elites and lo articulate a social, politic and economic proposal at national level. This new stage history it's attached both with an economic reform, oriented to market liberalization, and with a social reform, which aims to pacify and democratize the Salvadorian society: these processes constitute the frame in which the studied phenomenon develop. This process derives in the institution of a social order which, even while resort to the liberal democracy, conserves implicit the exclusive logic that has characterized the Salvadorian political system and state significant boundaries to the postwar political project.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 120, 2009: 249-279