The Fourteen Families (Spanish: Catorce Familias) was a term used to label and refer to the oligarchy of El Salvador during the country's period known as the "Coffee Republic" from 1871 to 1927.[1][2] The families controlled most of the land in the country.[1]
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- ^ a b Haggerty 1990, p. 10
- ^ "The Eclipse of the Oligarchs". The New York Times. 6 September 1981. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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- Federal Research Division Library of Congress (1990). Haggerty, Richard A. (ed.). El Salvador: A Country Study (PDF). Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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