The details of el salvadors protection racket state are no doubt unique but many of its features are found elsewhere certainly other state elites have justified their power by protecting social elites from their class enemies as discussed in the introduction the brazilian argentine and uruguayan militaries have at times used violence in ways that seemed calculated to create an image . In 1932 security forces in el salvador murdered 25000 peasants and workers between 1978 and 1991 the salvadoran government killed an additional 50000 civilians this work demonstrates that the salvadoran military state was essentially a protection racket. The protection racket state elite politics military extortion and civil war in el salvador book collections on project muse political science latin america studies upcc book collections on project muse archive political science and policy studies foundation author william stanley publisher temple university press 2010 isbn . The protection racket state elite politics military extortion and civil war in el salvador political science latin america studies. The protection racket state elite politics military extortion and civil war in el salvador by william stanley philadelphia pa temple university press 1996 328p 5995 cloth 2295 paper