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The FMLN's initial stance was that it had shot down the helicopter without knowing it was American, and that Dawson and Pickett had died of their injuries later on. The FMLN later changed the narrative to one where the two soldiers were killed in a fight with guerillas. [7] On January 18 the FMLN put two guerrillas on trial for the incident.
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 ...
Death squad victims in San Salvador, (c. 1981)Death squads in El Salvador (Spanish: escuadrones de la muerte) were far-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and their allies among the civilian population before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War.
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.
Two political parties, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), had traditionally dominated politics. [1] ARENA candidates won four consecutive presidential elections until the election of Mauricio Funes of the FMLN in March 2009. [2]
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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
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.