The Salvadorean insurgency: why choose peace? Joaquin Villalobos (2005) Joaquin Villalobos, a former FMLN leader in El Salvador, highlights the factors that led the FMLN to sign a peace agreement with the government. He rejects the notion that peace in El Salvador resulted from external factors related to the end of the Cold War, and instead highlights several internal dynamics. These include the nature and strength of the military-political coalition of the insurgent and opposition movements, the political pragmatism within the moderate sectors of the insurgency, the strategic choices made regarding the use of violence and changes in the wider political arena in El Salvador.
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