Sentence examples for fmln and from inspiring English sources

In fact, he has long since become disenchanted with his own party, the FMLN, and is outspokenly critical of its leadership.

The FMLN and the conservative Alliance, known as Arena, have dominated Salvadoran politics since a 1992 peace deal which ended a brutal civil war.

So as not to be victimized, former members of the FMLN and other refugees formed Mara Salvatrucha in the early 1980s; according to some sources, the name derived from the slang terms mara ("gang") and salvatruchas ("street-tough Salvadorans").

By that time the guerrilla units had joined in a single organization, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional; FMLN), and announced the opening of a "final offensive" in January 1981.

Since November mayors from both the FMLN and Arena have complained that federal cash to support the programmes has not materialised.Yet such initiatives may be the only way to turn a temporary truce into something more permanent.

Villalobos has become a complete bête noire for his former comrades in the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and is unlikely ever to reveal exactly what happened.

(Now a journalist and director of Contrapunto, Juan José was an FMLN combatant and was captured and tortured by the Salvadoran army). During the government of Mauricio Funes the family initiated legal actions to prosecute both Villalobos and Meléndez, but these did not fare well given the general amnesty that was declared as part of the peace accords.

Flyers bearing the air force seal and dropped from the air in recent days have advised "patriotic Salvadorans" of their "legitimate right" to kill "FMLN terrorists and their internationalist allies". American church worker Jennifer Jean Casolo was arrested Nov. 25 and charged with storing weapons for the rebels on the grounds of her residence.

Likewise, FMLN supporters and former guerrilla fighters treat those who led the revolutionary movement as unquestionable heroes.

In the 2009 presidential election, with some 60 percent of El Salvadorans voting, leftist Mauricio Funes of the FMLN claimed victory, and the former guerrilla group took power for the first time.

The family renewed its efforts after the electoral victory of the FMLN in 2014, and the assuming of the Presidency on the part of Salvador Sánchez Cerén, a key commander of the FMLN forces during the war.