Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

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The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is a leftist political organization in El Salvador that began as a coalition of guerrilla groups fighting the military-led government during the Salvadoran Civil War and later became a major political party.


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instanceOf guerrilla movement
left-wing political organization
political party
abbreviation FMLN
activeInConflict Salvadoran Civil War
became major political party in El Salvador
color red
country El Salvador NERFINISHED
dateOfPeaceAccords 1992
electedPresident Mauricio Funes
Salvador Sánchez Cerén
firstPresidentialVictory 2009
formerGuerrillaComponent Armed Forces of National Resistance
Communist Party of El Salvador armed wing
Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces
People's Revolutionary Army
Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers
founded 1980
foundedAs coalition of guerrilla groups
goalDuringWar overthrow of the Salvadoran military regime
hasWing youth wing
headquartersLocation San Salvador (political party phase)
heldOffice President of El Salvador
historicalContext Cold War-era Central American conflicts
ideology Marxism
left-wing
socialism
language Spanish
laterGoal democratic socialist reforms through elections
legalizedAsPoliticalParty 1992
namedAfter Farabundo Martí
notableFormerCommander Salvador Sánchez Cerén
operatedAs insurgent organization until early 1990s
opposed military-led government of El Salvador
opposedDuringWar Armed Forces of El Salvador
right-wing paramilitary groups in El Salvador
participatedIn 1984 Salvadoran presidential election (indirectly via boycott and opposition)
participatesIn Legislative Assembly of El Salvador elections
politicalPosition far-left (historical guerrilla phase)
left-wing
recognizedAs legitimate political party after Salvadoran Civil War
region Central America
signed Chapultepec Peace Accords
supportedBy various international leftist movements
symbol red star (historically associated)
transitionedTo legal political participation after peace accords
type mass political organization
wonPresidencyWith Mauricio Funes in 2009
Salvador Sánchez Cerén in 2014


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