Word: farne
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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Eduardo Sancho Castañeda, 35. Better known as Fermán Cienfuegos, Sancho commands the Armed Forces of National Resistance (FARN), a group that split from the E.R.P. over internal political differences. At times it seemed as if the two terrorist organizations were spending as much time shooting at each other as at their common enemy, the Salvadoran military. FARN was the only guerrilla group to break with the guerrillas' united front after it was formed in early 1980, at the insistence of Fidel Castro. FARN rejoined the others, however, within a few months, after...
...students into clandestine armed cells in the department of San Vicente. He worked aboveground as a professor of art history for the Salvadoran Ministry of Education. In 1970, Sancho formed "The Group," a political-military organization that brought together radical students and radical Christians. Like the other organizations, FARN bankrolled itself through kidnapings; Sancho is accused of responsibility for the 1978 kidnaping-assassination of Japanese Industrialist Fujio Matsumoto, among others. By one estimate, FARN had amassed $60 million through kidnapings...
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