El Salvador: In Power, Former Guerrillas To Hold First Congress
El Salvador: In Power, Former Guerrillas To Hold First Congress
By Federico Fuentes
21 October, 2015
Greenleft.org.au
Thirty-five years after its founding, El Salvador's historic Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is set to hold its first national congress at the end of October.
The congress has been called to help re-arm the activists of the left-wing party that began life in 1980 as a front of revolutionary groups engaged in a guerilla war. Today, 13 years after peace accords ended the armed conflict, it is in government.
The FMLN has held national conventions to elect its leaders, but this is the first time the group is holding a congress to facilitate such a wide-ranging discussion. The gathering will debate three key documents looking at the social and economic structure of the country, the programmatic guidelines and general strategy of the party. It will also discuss measures to strengthen the party's structures.
Much has changed in the country since the 1992 Peace Accords that involved the FMLN laying down its guns and shortly after becoming an official party.
It has grown to become the largest political party in the country.
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