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The Fourteen Families (Spanish: Catorce Familias) was a term used to label and refer to the oligarchy of El Salvador during the country's period known as the "Coffee Republic" from 1871 to 1927. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The families controlled most of the land in the country.
Initially, these migrants came to the country with the intention of going back to their homelands, but some decided to stay and start their families in El Salvador. [3] Because of their Ottoman passports, Middle Easterners in Central America were labeled as "Turks," and barred from civil society, public organizations and government posts.
Ana Margarita Gasteazoro Escolande was born on 10 October 1950, in San Salvador to a wealthy family. Her mother, Ana Marina Escolande, was religiously conservative and a member of Opus Dei. Her father, José Agustin Gasteazoro Mejia, was a civil engineer. She attended the elite American School in San Salvador.
At that time, the oligarchy consisted of some 20 families which controlled more than 70 percent of El Salvador's coffee production and exports, sugar mills, banks, television and newspapers. [16] Since the end of that war in 1992, the oligarchic families of El Salvador have shifted their focus from agricultural exports to capital investment .
The FMLN has controlled the mayor's offices in many of the large cities of El Salvador since 1997, including the capital, San Salvador, and the neighboring city Santa Tecla. The FMLN mayor of San Salvador, was Violeta Menjívar , the first female mayor of San Salvador, who was elected in a narrow victory in 2006.
Salvadorans (Spanish: Salvadoreños), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America.Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora, particularly in the United States, with smaller communities in other countries around the world.
He was born Napoleon Herson Calitto Arbaiza in San Salvador on 14 December 1941. Calitto graduated in 1963, together with Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios in the utmost elite military academy in El Salvador, Academia Militar Gerardo Barrios. He had a distinguished career and reputation during the civil war in El Salvador.
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