Word: carpio
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That pact was intended to bring an end to years of bickering. Instead, it created a new crisis around the leadership of the two most powerful rebel organizations: the 3,000-member Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), led by Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and the 4,000-member People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), headed by Joaquín Villalobos. The guerrillas insist that the struggle has been resolved. So, in a way, it has: Carpio died under mysterious circumstances last year at 63, and his group has suffered a splintering of its forces. Villalobos, 32, has emerged as first among equals...
Slight, bespectacled and grandfatherly in appearance, Cayetano Carpio was often called the Ho Chi Minh of the Salvadoran revolutionary movement. By 1947 he had joined the illegal Salvadoran Communist Party, eventually becoming its general secretary. In 1970 he broke with the party. Fanatically secretive, he was the chief exponent of "prolonged popular warfare," a hard-line strategy that would in his view probably culminate in direct confrontation with the U.S. Increasingly, it also conflicted with the view officially espoused by the other F.M.L.N. members, that the revolutionaries should negotiate a vague power-sharing agreement with the Salvadoran government...
Villalobos' brand of revolutionary pragmatism has appealed to younger Salvadoran rebels, who have flocked to his banner in larger numbers than to Carpio's FPL. It also won acceptance from Cayetano Carpio's junior commanders, led by his deputy, Melida Anaya Montes, 52. At a meeting in January 1983, Cayetano Carpio's own comrades finally rejected his intransigent stance in favor of increasing cooperation with Villalobos' E.R.P. and the rest of the F.M.L.N...
...another murky incident unfolded when the Sandinistas revealed the mysterious suicide in Nicaragua of one of El Salvador's most important guerrilla leaders, Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 63. Cayetano Carpio was the head of the rebel faction known as the Popular Forces of Liberation, the most determinedly Marxist-Leninist of the country's guerrilla organizations. According to the Sandinistas, he took his own life on April 12, after the equally mysterious assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other...
Shaf ick Jorge Handal, 51. Currently secretary-general of the Salvadoran Communist Party, Handal long resisted the insurrectionist ideas that led Carpio to break away from the party. But in April 1979, even the Moscow-lining Communists decided to join the fighting. They formed the Armed Forces of Liberation, one of the smallest of the guerrilla groups, which Handal commands...