How to Pronounce Cayetano Carpio
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Aug 06, 1918 Santa Tecla, La Libertad Department, El Salvador Died on 12 Apr 1983 (aged 64)
Salvadroan revolutionary
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About Cayetano Carpio
- Salvador Cayetano Carpio (August 6, 1918, Santa Tecla – April 12, 1983), aka Commander Marcial, was the leader of the Communist Party of El Salvador in the 1960s, until he quit the party to found the Salvadoran revolutionary political-military organization, the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí, also known by its initials, FPL) in 1970. Carpio did this because he felt the time was right for armed revolution to end the military dictatorship in El Salvador, but the Salvadoran Communist Party was against armed struggle, instead engaging mainly in legal electoral and trade union organizing. During the 1970s, Carpio's new organization, the FPL, became the largest group on the Salvadoran left, and therefore became the predominant force among the five organizations that joined together in 1980 under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
- Carpio played a leading role in both the FPL and the FMLN.
- He was sometimes referred to as the "Ho Chi Minh of Latin America". The official story of his death was that he committed suicide after being blamed by other leaders in the FPL for the murder of FPL second-in-command Ana Maria on April 6, 1983 in Managua, Nicaragua.
