El Salvador was in the midst of a Civil War in the period in question and the US was heavily supporting El Salvador against the FMLN guerrillas.

The FMLN was one of the main participants in the Salvadoran Civil War.

The FMLN was named after the rebel leader Farabundo Martí, who led workers and peasants in an uprising to transform Salvadoran society after the devastation caused by the eruption of the volcano Izalco in 1932.

Clarification: the official FMLN banner was red and white ; the red and yellow version shown above was used by the FPL.

Another large FMLN offensive was in November 1989.

When the U. S. began to advocate negotiations instead of a military solution, a negotiated peace accord between the FMLN and the Salvadoran government was reached in fairly short order in 1992, despite a few incidents that could have marred the accord, such as the high-profile murder of the peace-seeking FPL commandante Antonio Cardenal, aka Jesus Rojas.

The current FMLN mayor of San Salvador is Violeta Menjívar, the first female mayor of San Salvador, who was elected in a narrow victory in 2006.

He was inaugurated in June 2009 as the first president coming from the FMLN party.

The leaders of this split ( including FMLN commandante Joaquin Villalobos of the ERP ) then formed the Partido Democrata ( Democratic Party ), which was short-lived.

It is at that point that the FPL, CP, ERP, RN and PRTC ceased to exist, and what remained was a unified FMLN.

This was a contentious decision, and many in the FMLN did not support Guardado, as they believed that his politics were moving to the right.

He was ultimately expelled and some of his supporters left the FMLN.

The people who left to form the FDR chose this name because it has a legacy in the Salvadoran movement ; an organization by the same name was formed under the leadership of the FMLN during the civil war to bring together parties and individuals doing legal political work during the civil war.

Canjura was a popular FMLN mayor of the municipality of Nejapa for three consecutive periods, and therefore under FMLN statutes, would not have been eligible to run for a fourth consecutive period.

On Sunday, March 15, 2009 an FMLN candidate, Mauricio Funes, was elected President of El Salvador.

A Times staff reporter at the time, Bonner was smuggled by FMLN rebels to visit the site approximately a month after the massacre took place.

The treaty was negotiated by representatives of the Salvadoran government, the rebel movement FMLN, and political parties, with observers from the Roman Catholic Church and United Nations.

The Communist Party of Cuba has favored supporting revolutions abroad and was active in assisting the ELN in Colombia, the FMLN in El Salvador, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement in Grenada.

The BPJ was founded as the youth wing of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ).

Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Otto Reich, stated that the U. S. government was " concerned about the impact that an FMLN victory could have on the commercial, economic, and migration-related relations of the U. S. with El Salvador.

As a guerrilla leader in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a member of the group that brought five opposition forces together to found the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ).

It is alleged that some credit for the unity of the five organizations that formed the FMLN may belong to Cuba's Fidel Castro, who facilitated negotiation between the groups in Havana in December 1979.

On October 10, 1980 the four organizations formed the Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional ( FMLN ).

In 1995, the five parties that had formed the FMLN dissolved themselves.

On March 27, 2005, a group of Salvadoran communists formed a new PCES, in the tradition of the old party that dissolved into the FMLN.

The Communist Party of El Salvador and the four other parties continued to exist as separate organizations under the umbrella of the FMLN throughout El Salvador's civil war from 1980 to 1992.

A group under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), the Central American Revolutionary Workers ' Party ( PRTC ), is thought to have carried out the act.

During the 1970s, Carpio's new organization, the FPL, became the largest group on the Salvadoran left, and therefore became the predominant force among the five organizations that joined together in 1980 under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ).

After the formation of the FMLN, the group organized their first major military offensive on January 10, 1981.

Later he served as a vice-minister of the Presidency, with functions as adviser of the head of state, and directed the plan of governmental action in accordance with the peace accords of January 1992 that ended fighting with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerilla group.

Photos of the celebration of the peace accords on January 16, 1992 by the whole FMLN show the red and white flag, which, slightly adapted, became the banner of the legal political party.

In the legislative elections, held on March 16, 2003, the FMLN won 34. 0 % of the popular vote and 31 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, becoming the political party with the most assembly members.

* France and Mexico recognized the FMLN as a belligerent in the civil war in El Salvador on August 28, 1981.

Later on, after two allegedly fraudulent elections in 1972 and in 1977, and despite the intervention of the Communist Party of Cuba ( History of the FMLN, newspaper " Frente "), Handal became convinced that the defeat of the military dictatorship would not be possible through elections.

On the one hand it increased international pressures on the Salvadoran government to sign peace agreements with the guerrilla organisation FMLN.

The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) responded by launching an all out attack on the government on January 10, 1981, which resulted in the regime receiving immediate military aid and advisors from the United States of America.

He was determined to end the civil war by " dialogue without arms ", and on October 15, 1984, in La Palma, Chalatenango, he met FMLN leaders face to face, which marked the beginning of the end of the civil war.

In a communiqué from the FMLN General Command broadcast by Radio Venceremos on the day Inés Duarte was released, the General Command assumed full responsibility for the operation and described the actions of the commando, including the killing of the bodyguards, as " impeccable ".

On October 5, 1987, dialogue with the FMLN began again in which it was the Third dialogue, and on October 28, Congress passed an amnesty law, just two days after Herbert Anaya, the president of the special United Nations Human Rights Commission for El Salvador, was assassinated.

In 1995 he led a contingent of Chicago-based musicians on a ten-day tour of El Salvador, hosted by the FMLN.

Since returning to Canada he has worked on many direct action campaigns including students issues like tuition reduction and elimination ; against sexism, homophobia and racism such as the Dr Chun case ; international solidarity with the ANC, Black Panthers, Angela Davis, and FMLN ; as well as electoral politics on the municipal, provincial and federal level.

Through the 1980s and into the early 1990s the PSN worked on many issues including organizing against U. S. military intervention in the Central American countries of Nicaragua and El Salvador ( the PSN supported the Sandinistas and the FMLN ); organizing to kick the CIA off university campuses ; the movement against apartheid in South Africa ; organizing against the ROTC presence on college campuses ; defending women's reproductive rights ; and others.

On January 10, 1981 the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) launched a generalized attack on the government which resulted in the regime receiving immediate military aid from the U. S., including military advisers.

" Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez, for whom the FMLN or Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front was named, was born in Teotepeque on May 5, 1893.

Despite concerns over his recent ties with the oppressive right-wing Guatemalan government and how he would be perceived by the leftist FMLN of El Salvador, Stone was confirmed and commenced the position on May 26.