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This article originally appeared in Jacobin América Latina and is co-published in English with Jacobin. On the evening of Sunday, January 31, a pickup truck carrying members of El Salvador’s main opposition party, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), was intercepted. The truck had been traveling from a campaign event in the capital, San Salvador, when three assailants stopped the vehicle and opened fire. Two people were killed: Juan de Dios Tejada and Gloria Rogel del Cid, both veterans of the civil war between the FMLN and the US-backed military dictatorship. Three more...

HeadlineFeb 02, 2021 In El Salvador, two activists were killed Sunday and five others wounded after gunmen opened fire on a group of supporters of the leftist political party FMLN in the capital San Salvador. Gloria Rogel del Cid and Juan de Dios Tejada were members of FMLN and survivors of the U.S.-backed war in El Salvador. The group had been campaigning all day as El Salvador prepares to hold local and legislative elections at the end of the month. FMLN lawmakers and Salvadoran advocates blamed conservative President Nayib Bukele for instigating political violence after Bukele insinuated t...