Equipo de Educación Maiz

El Neoliberalismo [Salvadoran Civil War, grassroots popular media]

San Salvador: Equipo de Educación Maiz, 1992. Saddle stapled in wrappers. 62 pp. 8 ¼ x 6 ¼ in. Shelfwear and faint creases on wrappers; very good. Item #10516

Pamphlet on neoliberalism and its history, with a particular focus on Central America, produced by the Salvadoran popular education collective Equipo Maiz. Formed during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992), Equipo Maiz was comprised of educators, cartoonists, writers, and activists who sought to combat rightwing misinformation and the elite-dominated media’s attempts to create a conservative political common sense following the Civil War. Fusing together Paolo Freire’s radical pedagogy, liberation theology, and grassroots popular media, Equipo Maiz produced several pamphlets in a popular text and comic format on different aspects of Salvadoran history, culture, and political economy, and also ran a community center in San Salvador that offered workshops. 

This publication offers an intellectual and political history of neoliberalism, along with the specifics of its implementation in the region and El Salvador specifically, and how it would transform the political economy and living conditions of working people in the region and the country.

A key example of popular, grassroots media and radical pedogagic approaches employed by the Central American left during and immediately following the civil wars and state violence that marked the 1960s to 1990s. 

OCLC locates ten holdings as of March 2026.

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