Description: On October 10, 1980, the FMLN was created as the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (Frente Democrático Revolucionario; FDR), a coalition of dissident political groups backed by Cuba. Throughout the 1980s its members initiated and engaged in hard-fought battles with Salvadoran government troops who were trained and supplied by the United States. In November 1989 the FMLN launched a major offensive on a number of urban centres in the country, including the country’s capital, San Salvador. The fierceness of the attacks took the national army by surprise, but, after weeks of intense fighting and indiscriminate aerial bombardment of San Salvador by the Salvadoran Air Force, the guerrilla units were forced to retreat from the city.Nevertheless, Salvadoran Pres. Alfredo Cristiani’s loss of faith in the army’s capacity to defeat the FMLN strengthened the president’s commitment to reaching a negotiated settlement with the group. The United Nations-brokered Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed by the Salvadoran government and the FMLN on January 16, 1992, in Mexico City, and the FMLN members then began to disarm. That December the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the Salvadoran national body responsible for overseeing elections, recognized the FMLN as an official political party.
Price: 29.99 USD
Location: Krivoy Rog
End Time: 2024-12-13T01:12:00.000Z
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Theme: Militaria
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
