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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.
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 FMLN also retained the mayor's seats in the largest cities of El Salvador, San Salvador and Santa Tecla, and hundreds of other municipalities. This was possible because one of the largest progressive ...
The offensive is considered to have sped up the peace negotiations between the government and the FMLN, eventually leading to the peace treaties of Chapultepec that put an end to the 12 year conflict. [1] The government realised the FMLN's numbers were actually much higher than they had initially estimated and they were getting more and better ...
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 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.
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]
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.
[15] [16] Flores stated that the FMLN would not form a coalition with any right-wing political parties, including ARENA. [17] On 16 July 2023, Flores was officially confirmed as the FMLN's presidential candidate. [18] On 7 September 2023, the FMLN began the process of registering Flores' and Marroquín's candidacies. [19]