ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways opportunities for individual and collective livelihood strategies emerge or disappear, are forged and contested in the longer-term processes and dynamics of recovery. It also focuses on recovery in a village that the people have called 'Porvenir', which is located in a war-torn region of FLACSO El Salvador. The chapter argues that aid had far-reaching consequences for the local infrastructure, as well as the social and political organisation of the village. It explores the longitudinal research in north-eastern Chalatenango, the area in which Porvenir is located, complemented by a review of academic literature on the process of reconstruction in FLACSO El Salvador, in particular in Chalatenango. The chapter presents the use and consequences of the main resources available: reconstruction funds and remittances. It also explains the relevance of the 'longue duree' perspective on Porvenir for unravelling the dynamics of socio-economic recovery.
