National Resistance Armed Forces Explained

National Resistance Armed Forces
Native Name:Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional
Native Name Lang:es
Founding Leader:Ernesto Jovel
Active:1975–1992
Country:El Salvador
Allegiance:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
Ideology:Revolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialism
Partof:National Resistance
Opponents:Salvadoran junta
United States
War:Salvadoran Civil War

The National Resistance Armed Forces (es|Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional) was the military arm of National Resistance, a Salvadoran socialist organization that was founded on May 10, 1975, when ideological differences within the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) and the assassinations of Roque Dalton and Armando Arteaga made some members break away from the ERP. Ernesto Jovel was its first general secretary. Other founding members of the RN included Eduardo Sancho (aka Fermán Cienfuegos), Lil Milagro Ramírez, Julia Rodríguez and Arsenio.[1]

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  1. Web site: FARN Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional . 2007-02-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170223031619/http://eltorogoz.net/farn.htm . 2017-02-23 . dead .

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