The Chapultepec Peace Accords was a treaty which brought peace to El Salvador in 1992 after more than a decade of wrenching civil war.
The treaty was negotiated by representatives of the Salvadoran government, the rebel movement FMLN, and political parties, with observers from the Catholic Church and United Nations.
A nine-month cease-fire took effect February 1, 1992, and was never broken.
The Accords included a seventy percent reduction of the armed forces, the dissolution of the rapid deployment forces, the National Guard, the National Police, the Treasury Police and the transfer of the state intelligence agencies to the presidency of the Republic.
External link
The Peace Accords (http://www.elsalvador.org/home.nsf/0/2fd6010e5830065b85256b12006fcf51?OpenDocument) (official government webpage)
The El Salvador Accords: A Model for Peace Keeping Actions (http://www.promotingpeace.org/1985/1/roush.html)
Chapultepec ("Grasshopper Hill" in the Nahuatl language) is a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City with much significance in Mexican history.
In the days when Tenochtitlan was the island capital of the Aztecs, the city was linked to Chapultepec by a causeway and the hill was a retreat for the Emperors.
Chapultepec is at one end of the city's grandest avenue, Paseo de la Reforma.
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