Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces

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Not to be confused with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.
FPL
Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces
Dates of operation1 April 1970 – 1995
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism

The Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces (

Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
(FMLN).

History

The FPL grew out of the

Mélida Anaya Montes
, the leader of the educational union, and university professors Clara Elizabeth Ramírez and Felipe Peña Mendoza were high-profile figures.

During the 1970s, the FPL began to increase its social base, carrying out political and social work with the farmers of the North and Central Zone of El Salvador and with university students. In 1975, the

FMLN
on 10 October 1980.

During the

Mélida Anaya Montes (Commander Ana Maria) in Managua, Nicaragua. The Secretary General and leader of the organization, Salvador Cayetano Carpio was accused of ordering the assassination, and committed suicide
before the investigations into her death concluded.

After the events of April 1983, Commander Leonel González was chosen as the new Secretary General of the organization. After the Chapultepec Peace Accords, the FPL demobilized their military apparatus. By 1995 the organization had dissolved and had been completely integrated into the FMLN.

References

  1. ^ "La Brigada Farabundo Martí" (in Spanish). Darío Sánchez. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4422-3798-8
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-521-01050-4
    .

External links
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