Check out the latest commentary by our friends at the Nassau Institute. This week's topic is a recent speech by fomer president of El Salvador, Francisco Flores to the Nassau Institute/Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Taking Small Countries to Greatness conference on Friday, JUne 9, 2006.
Here's a little snippet from his keynote address:
El Salvador was destroyed by 13 years of armed conflict. Every Salvadoran family had to mourn the loss of at least one of its members. In one of the greatest diasporas in modern history, one third of the population fled to neighboring countries. Our streets were filled with beggars due to the brutal impoverishment of our campesino families.
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