Salvador Cayetano Carpio (1919 - April 12, 1983), also known as Commander Marcial, was the founder and the leader of FMLN. He was sometimes referred to as the "Ho Chi Minh of Latin America". 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shafik Handal Revolution or Death, We will win! El Salvador in struggle. ... Hồ Chí Minh Hồ Chí Minh (meaning Ho, Enlightened Will) (Hán tự: 胡志明)listen ▶(?) (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946 -1955) and President (1955 - 1969) of North Vietnam. ...

He committed suicide after blamed by the FMLN for the murder of FMLN second-in-command Ana Maria April 6, 1983 in Managua, Nicaragua. Shafik Handal Revolution or Death, We will win! El Salvador in struggle. ... FMLN commander Ana Maria, considered to be an icon of revolutionary women in Latin America. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Managua, with a population of about 1,617,096 in 2004, is the capital of Nicaragua and largest city of Central America. ...

Early Life

Salvador Cayetano Carpio was born in 1919 as a son of a cobbler. He became a trade union activist as a young man. Later he joined the Communist Party of El Salvador, becoming its secretary general in the 1960s. Much of his adult life was spent in prison, in exile or underground. The Communist Party of El Salvador (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de El Salvador) was the official Communist political party in El Salvador. ...

Forming of the FMLN

At the age of 50 Carpio headed for the hills with a small group of women and men. Under his leadership, his organization-- which in 1972 took the name Popular Liberation Front (FPL) -- creatively combined armed struggle with different forms of mass organization. It was instrumental in the formation of the People's Revolutionary Bloc, the largest of the cross-sector mass organizations that mobilized hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans in the economic and political struggles of the latter part of the 1970s. as the senior leader of the revolutionary movement and commander-in-chief of its largest organization, Carpio was a central figure in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).

See also

• History of El Salvador