Historias emocionales: una historiografía de las resistencias en Chalatenango, El Salvador

This article uses the 'concept of history' of Walter Benjamin, to unearth the historical importance of a moment of peasant resistance in Chalatenango, El Salvador, at the beginning of the 1980s. The communities of the northeast of this department, not only suffered a savage exploitation and repression, but also organized their own Local Popular Power. They were not 'only' victims, but protagonists of their history. Although a brief experience of two years, more or less, was very important in historical terms. However, as Benjamin says, the resistances that do not end in a historically recognized success are lost to history, in fact 'flashes' of history. This article analyzes the role of the historian and a process of construction of history from memory, with the peasants themselves.