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| Quote taken from interview with comrade Ulises on Radio Venceremos (1985): "...a long time ago we would have beaten the puppet government and the Army, we would have been building a free country if it hadn't been for the economic, political and military aid given by the gringos, therefore the North American imperialism is responsible for the prolongation of the war..." |
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| link of brief history: FMLN: Revolution and Counterrevolution in El Salvador |
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| Agustin Farabundo Martí was a leading radical who became an organiser of the poor in various Marxist groups. When the president announced the communists could take part in elections in 1931, the military staged a coup. They allowed the elections to continued but banned successful candidates from taking office. The communists started a short-lived insurrection that was rapidly defeated with little loss of life. Martí was executed and the army carried out a brutal campaign of reprisals, killing thousands of people - mainly Native Indians -in what became known as 'la matanza'. |