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Around 2:15 p.m., a Bell UH-1 Iroquois [3] making its way to Honduras [4] was shot down by the FMLN using small arms fire. Pilot Chief Warrant Officer Four Daniel Scott was killed in the crash on the controls, but two other servicemen, Lieutenant Colonel David Pickett (copilot) and Specialist Earnest Dawson (the crew chief), managed to survive.
The Sumpul River massacre (Spanish: masacre del Sumpul [1]) took place in Chalatenango, El Salvador on May 13, 1980 during the Salvadoran Civil War.Salvadoran Armed Forces and pro-government paramilitaries launched an offensive to disrupt the activities of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
The FMLN's candidate in the 21 March 2004 presidential election, Schafik Hándal, won 35.6% of the vote, but was defeated by Antonio Saca of ARENA. In the 2006 legislative election , held on 12 March 2006, the FMLN won 39.7% of the popular vote and 32 out of 84 legislative assembly seats.
The Salvadoran Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the left-wing Marxist-oriented Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) against the armed and security forces loyal to the military-led conservative government of El Salvador, between 1979 and 1992.
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.
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.
Despite the retreat, FMLN propaganda and radio broadcasts continued to state that the offensive was succeeding. [55] The FMLN captured both Chalatenango and San Francisco Gotera by 20 January, the capitals of the departments of Chalatenango and Morazán, respectively. [18] [25] Over two-thirds of El Salvador was engulfed in the fighting. [25]
The Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí, abbreviated FPL) [4] [5] was a left wing guerrilla military and political organization in El Salvador. It was the oldest of the five groups that merged in 1980 to form the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).