Word: melida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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 Salvadoran guerrillas, all members of Cayetano Carpio's group, in connection with the Anaya Montes murder. Among those detained was Rogelio Bazzaglia, described as Cayetano Carpio's "trusted lieutenant." Few people believed...
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