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The FMLN has controlled the mayor's offices in many of the large cities of El Salvador since 1997, including the capital, San Salvador, and the neighboring city Santa Tecla. The FMLN mayor of San Salvador, was Violeta Menjívar, the first female mayor of San Salvador, who was elected in a narrow victory in 2006. The death of the FMLN's long ...
Corruption in El Salvador is a problem at all levels of government, however, according to a poll conducted by the Cid-Gallup in February 2023, only 4 percent of Salvadorans believed corruption as the most pressing issue facing the country.
The Renewal Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Renovador) was a communist political party in El Salvador.The Renovadores started as an organized internal tendency within the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) around 1999, then split from the FMLN around 2002 when their principal leader, Facundo Guardado, was expelled from the FMLN.
These negotiations led to the foundation of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) on 10 October 1980. During the Salvadoran Civil War , the FPL maintained its bases in the rural departments of Chalatenango , Cabañas , Usulután and the San Vicente Department .
The four groups within the FMLN consisted of the Popular Liberation Forces (FPL), the National Resistance (RN), the Revolutionary Party of Central America Workers (PRTC) and the ERP. The importance of joining the FMLN was to be united with other groups that shared similar ideas of overthrowing the local government.
Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and took office on 1 June 2009. Funes and his immediate family lived in exile in Nicaragua from 2016 until his death because of allegations of criminal actions during his tenure.
Lorena Peña (2015) Lorena Guadalupe Peña Mendoza, also known as Nadia Palacios and Rebeca Palacios, (born 1955) is a Salvadoran economist, former guerilla and politician. . Representing the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), from May 2014 to November 2016, she was the third woman to become president of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvad
Casolo's arrest was related to some arms allegedly discovered at her rented house. An American official noted at the time, "It's a good bust." [1]However, in a 1989 report on El Salvador, Human Rights Watch noted that the Casolo arrest came at a time when the Salvadoran police and army were arresting, jailing and expelling foreigners working with Salvadoran churches and relief organizations.