Fermán Cienfuegos

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Fermán Cienfuegos
Birth nameJosé Eduardo Sancho Castañeda
Born (1947-03-06) 6 March 1947 (age 77)
National Resistance Armed Forces
Battles/warsSalvadoran Civil War

José Eduardo Sancho Castañeda (born 6 March 1947), better known by his nom de guerre Fermán Cienfuegos, was the leader of the

National Resistance
(RN).

Biography

José Eduardo Sancho Castañeda was born on 6 March 1947 in

Sancho Castañeda was influenced by leftists in Costa Rica, including

Manuel Mora Valverde, the leader of the People's Vanguard Party whom he considered to be a close friend. There, he also began to read texts written by Karl Marx. He opposed the Football War fought between the governments of El Salvador and Honduras in 1969.[2]

The RN was founded in 1975 as a split from the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) after an internal struggle within the ERP resulted in the assassination of a group of ERP leaders including famed Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton who advocated that the ERP should not have such a largely militarist focus and should do more organizing among the masses.

In 1980, the RN was one of the five revolutionary Marxist organizations that formed the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) that fought an armed struggle against the Salvadoran government. As the leader of the RN, Cienfuegos was one of the leaders of the final offensive of 1981[3] and was one of the signatories of the 1992 Salvadoran peace accords.

References

Citations

  1. ^ Brown 2000, p. 113.
  2. ^ a b Brown 2000, p. 114.
  3. ^ Bosch 1999, pp. 75–76.

Bibliography

  • Bosch, Brian J. (1999). The Salvadoran Officer Corps and the Final Offensive of 1981. .
  • Brown, Timothy Charles (1 October 2000). When the Ak-47s Fall Silent: Revolutionaries, Guerrillas, and the Dangers of Peace. Hoover Institution Press. . Retrieved 16 January 2013.