The Post Colonial Social Structure in El Salvador

Abstract

Based on the development and hegemony of planting and coffee trading, a structural renewal was produced in El Salvador, which at the same time, it produced a new social order. On top, are located the coffee plantation owners, farmers, importing and exporting business people, financial capitalists, and representatives of big foreign companies. The great trading and industrial powerful people, the small business people either peddlers or in markets of the country, the small producers, the professionals, the poor peasants, including the priests and the school military people, the state employees, civilians and manual workers.