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The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
At the end of the war, the FMLN still comprised the five political parties—FPL, CP, ERP, RN, PRTC—each of which retained its own organizational structure but with a leader. During the civil war, and continuing in the post-war period, people did not directly join the FMLN per se, but joined one of the five component groups.
The final offensive of 1981 (Spanish: ofensiva final de 1981), also known as the general offensive of 1981 (Spanish: ofensiva general de 1981), was the unsuccessful first military offensive conducted by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the Salvadoran Civil War.
The FMLN planned to steal stored weapons and arm the civil population against the government. The first target was the army command in Ayutuxtepeque , followed by a series of assaults on military locations in Mejicanos , Ciudad Delgado , Soyapango , Cerro San Jacinto , Zacatecoluca, San Miguel and Usulután. [ 1 ]
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.
For example, former Communist Party leader Schafik Hándal was the FMLN's presidential candidate in the 2004 elections. During the Salvadoran civil war from 1980 to 1992, Schafik Hándal was the leader of the Communist Party. Prior to him, Cayetano Carpio was the Communist Party leader in the 1960s, before leaving the CP to form the FPL and ...
The Peace Accords were the result of a long negotiation process between the Government and the FMLN that had begun in the mid-1980s. The first meetings took place in Chalatenango on October 15, 1984, exactly 5 years after the start of the civil war. [15] Further negotiations occurred in La Libertad on November 30, 1984.
The two surviving soldiers were summarily executed by FMLN forces in one of the most infamous incidents during El Salvador's civil war. The incident occurred during the 1979–1992 Salvadoran Civil War, pitted between government forces and left-wing guerillas. Mass killings of civilians, especially by the military, were widespread during the ...